Sunday, June 30, 2019

(LML) Early Diagnosis and Leprosy-chemoprophylaxis



Leprosy Mailing List – June 30,  2019

Ref.:    (LML) Early Diagnosis and Leprosy-chemoprophylaxis

From:  Ben Naafs, Munnekeburen, the Netherlands


Dear colleagues,

State of the art lecture about Early Diagnosis and Leprosy-chemoprophylaxis by Dr. Ben Naafs. 24th World Congress of Dermatology, Milan, June 2019.


The message of his talk was:

  • It is easy to talk about State of the Art when we forget the lessons from the past.
  • The diagnosis of leprosy is still clinical. We know that the environment may contain viable M.leprae.
  • Follow-up after release from treatment is often not provided.
  • Chemoprophylaxis, well-advertised today, is back to where it was in the eighties.
  • Give contacts treatment, not a single dose.
  • Presently, chemoprophylaxis together with vaccination is the only strategy to reduce incidence.

 

Note editor:  In total 57 slides; Leprosy-chemoprophylaxis from slide 39 onwards. We had problems attaching the original file to Google Group.

 


LML - S Deepak, B Naafs, S Noto and P Schreuder

LML blog link: http://leprosymailinglist.blogspot.it/

Contact: Dr Pieter Schreuder << editorlml@gmail.c


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