F. Golforoushan

[ 1 ] - Review of Ten-yrs Leprosy Cases in Azerbai-jan, Northwest of Iran

Leprosy is a rare but important infectious disease caused by mycobacterium leprae. Word health organization suggested a strategy to reduce the prevalence of the disease to less than one per 10000 people. It seems that the leprosy is now in its elimination stage because during a period of ten years only few new cases were found in Iran. We studied 157 new leprosy cases that were referred to and ...