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1Hansen's Disease Control Unit, Ministry of Health, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
The West Indian Medical Journal
|November 15, 2000
Abstract:
This is a retrospective study of relapses among leprosy patients who received multiple drug therapy in Trinidad and Tobago between January 1982 and December 1994. The results of the study reveal a relapse rate of 0.65% for multibacillary cases and 1.5% for paucibacillary cases. These results are comparable to the relapse rates reported by the World Health Organization.
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