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| Id: | 13436
| | Author: | Rees, R. J; Meade, T. W
| | Title: | Comparison of the modes of spread and the incidence of tuberculosis and leprosy
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| | Source: | s.l; s.n; January 12, 1974. 3 p. .
| | Abstract: | It has been assumed in the past that attack-rates for leprosy are lower than those for tuberculosis, that leprosy is spread by direct person-to-person contact, and that in leprosy the skin is the most likely route of infection. However, the numbers of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum from open cases of tuberculosis and of M. leprae in the nasal secretions of patients with lepromatous leprosy are similar; in addition, attack-rates in family or household contacts for the two diseases in comparable populations in South India are of the same orger. While these findings do not prove that modes of spread and routes of infection are identical for the two diseases, they are consistent with this possibility.(AU).
| | Descriptors: | INDIA
HANSENIASE/epidemiol
HANSENIASE/genet
HANSENIASE/microbiol
MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE/isol
MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS/isol
MUCOSA NASAL/microbiol
TUBERCULOSE PULMONAR/epidemiol
TUBERCULOSE PULMONAR/genet
TUBERCULOSE PULMONAR/microbiol
| | Limits: | ESTUDO COMPARATIVO
HUMANO
MASCULINO
FEMININO
LACTENTE
PRÉ-ESCOLAR
CRIANÇA
ADULTO
MEIA-IDADE
IDOSO
ADOLESCENTE
| | Electronic Medium: | http://www.ilsl.br
| | Location: | BR191.1; 01785/s |
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