Global elimination of leprosy by 2020: are we on track?
Our predictions show that although country-level elimination is reached by 2020, leprosy is likely to remain a problem in the high-endemic regions (i.e. states, districts and provinces with multimillion populations), which account for most of the cases in a country.
The results of the current study suggest that the 105Val allele variant of the GSTP1 gene at exon 5 confers a significantly decreased risk of developing severe oxaliplatin-related cumulative neuropathy.