The Global Campaign to Eliminate Leprosy
Open Access
- 27 December 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 2 (12), e341
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020341
Abstract
While effective drug treatments have reduced the global disease burden, there remain important challenges to fighting and controlling the disease.Keywords
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