Dermatologist’s role in leprosy elimination/post-elimination
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Role of dermatologists in leprosy elimination and post elimination era.
Would it not have been better to have left out the word 'elimination' altogether in the question and do what WHO has done in its new strategic plan for 2006-2010, 'Global Strategy for further reducing the Leprosy Burden and Sustaining Leprosy Control Activities'? Why not use a title such as 'The Role of Dermatologists in reducing the Leprosy Burden and Sustainig Leprosy Control Activities'? Som...
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عنوان ژورنال: Leprosy Review
سال: 2007
ISSN: 2162-8807
DOI: 10.47276/lr.78.1.30