High yield of retrospective active case finding for leprosy in Comoros

Nimer Ortuño-Gutiérrez; Aboubacar Mzembaba; Abdallah Baco; Sofie M. Braet; Assoumani Younoussa; Zahara Salim; Mohamed Amidy; Saverio Grillone; Aouladi Said; Bouke C. de Jong; Jan Hendrik Richardus; Epco Hasker

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High yield of retrospective active case finding for leprosy in Comoros

Nimer Ortuño-Gutiérrez^*, Aboubacar Mzembaba, Abdallah Baco, Sofie M. Braet, Assoumani Younoussa, Zahara Salim, Mohamed Amidy, Saverio Grillone, Aouladi Said, Bouke C. de Jong, Jan Hendrik Richardus, Epco Hasker

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Original language	English
Article number	e0010158
Journal	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Volume	16
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010158
Publication status	Published - 3 Mar 2022

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Acknowledgments:
We are grateful to the health staff of the National Leprosy Programme of the Union of Comoros involved in the active case finding activities, as well as to staff of Damien Foundation and the Institute of Tropical Medicine and Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam.

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