(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

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Dear colleagues,

State of the art lecture about Early Diagnosis and Leprosy-chemoprophylaxis by Dr. Ben Naafs. 24^th 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.

 

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

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