Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2015 Apr 23;9(4):e0003658.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003658. eCollection 2015 Apr.

The missing millions: a threat to the elimination of leprosy

William Cairns Smith  1 , Wim van Brakel  2 , Tom Gillis  3 , Paul Saunderson  4 , Jan Hendrik Richardus  5
Affiliations

The missing millions: a threat to the elimination of leprosy

William Cairns Smith et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1. Number of new leprosy cases by year.
The red continuous line represents the observed annual new case detection rate between 1985 and 2012, with extrapolation to 2020 based on the trend after 2005 (red dotted line). The blue continuous line is the predicted new case detection rate based on modeling with the SIMLEP model, applying an intermediate scenario in the presence of an infant BCG vaccination programme [7].
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. World Health Organization. Handbook of resolutions and decisions of the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board, vol. III, 1985–1992, 3rd ed Geneva: WHO;1993:117–8.
    1. World Health Organization. Enhanced global strategy for further reducing the disease burden due to leprosy, 2011–2015: Operational guidelines SEA-GLP-2009.4. New Delhi: WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia; 2011.
    1. World Health Organization. WHO Expert Committee on Leprosy, 8th Report WHO Tech Rep Ser 2012; 968 - PubMed
    1. World Health Organization. Global leprosy: update on the 2012 situation. Weekly Epidemiological Record No. 35, 2013, 88, 365–380 - PubMed
    1. Declercq E. Leprosy figures: no time for self-complacency. Lepr Rev. 2012;83:3–5. - PubMed

LinkOut - more resources