Monday, July 11, 2022

Fw: Ref.: (LML) Safer and newer antimicrobial drugs for leprosy needed

 

 
Leprosy Mailing List – July 11,  2022

 

Ref.:  (LML) Safer and newer antimicrobial drugs for leprosy needed

From:  Diana Lockwood, London, UK

 

Dear Pieter,


Safer and newer antimicrobial drugs for leprosy– time to test monthly ROM in an adequately powered randomised trial?  

Diana N. J. Lockwood, Gerson O. Penna, Saba Lambert, Vivek Vasudev Pai & Stephen L. Walker  

Lepr Rev (2022) 93, 96–101  

 

We are posting the link and attaching  a pdf to an editorial we have written about the need for a large randomised controlled trail of monthly Rifampicin, Ofloxacin and minocycline in comparison with the current WHO multidrug regimen of Monthly Rifampicin, daily Clofazimine and daily Dapsone.  The proposed regimen would reduce mortality and morbidity associated with the adverse effects of WHO MDT. Th editorial has been written by leprologists across the world and is an important step to improve treatment. We hope that the leprosy community and organisations will take up the challenge. 

 

DOI: 10.47276/lr.93.2.96 

 

 

Diana Lockwood 

Steve Walker 

 

BW

Diana NJ Lockwood

Emeritus professor of Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Keppel St

London WC1E 7HT

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

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

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