Clinical relapse in child hood leprosy
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Relapse in leprosy.
Leprosy is unique in terms of the nature of the causative organism (Mycobacterium leprae), the chronicity of the disease, its prolonged treatment and the definitions of "cure" and "relapse." The principal mode of assessing the efficacy of therapeutic regimens in leprosy is the "relapse rate." There are wide variations in estimates of relapse rates after the World Health Organization (WHO) multi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Paediatric Dermatology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2319-7250
DOI: 10.4103/2319-7250.184437