| immunoprophylactic effects of the anti-leprosy mw vaccine in household contacts of leprosy patients: clinical field trials with a follow up of 8-10 years. | we report here a large scale, double blind immunoprophylactic trial of a leprosy vaccine based on mycobacterium w (mw) in an endemic area of kanpur dehat, uttar pradesh, india. a population of 420,823 spread over 272 villages was screened where 1226 multibacillary (mb) and 3757 paucibacillary (pb) cases of leprosy were detected. a total of 29,420 household contacts (hhc) of these patients were screened for evidence of active or inactive leprosy. after exclusion of 1622 contacts for any of the di ... | 2005 | 16038246 |