@article{18286,
  keywords = {Humans, Incidence, leprosy, Malawi, World Health Organization},
  author = {Boerrigter G and Ponnighaus J M},
  title = {Does the introduction of WHO-MDT influence trends in the incidence of leprosy?--the Malaŵian experience.},
  abstract = {<p>There has been an average annual decline in detection rates of all types of leprosy in Malaŵi of around 11.6% between 1977 and 1991. There was no obvious acceleration or slowing down of this decline following the introduction of WHO/MDT in 1983-84. Disability ratios stayed at the same level of about 11% during the 15 years covered by this paper suggesting that patients did not self-report earlier after 1983-84 which might have masked an underlying accelerated decline in detection rates. Thus it is concluded that the influence of WHO/MDT on the pattern of leprosy over a period of time, in a country like Malaŵi, is so far not noticeably different from any influence dapsone monotherapy might have had.</p>},
  year = {1993},
  journal = {Leprosy review},
  volume = {64},
  pages = {227-35},
  month = {1993 Sep},
  issn = {0305-7518},
  url = {http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1993/v64n3/pdf/v64n3a06.pdf},
  doi = {10.5935/0305-7518.19930025},
  language = {eng},
}