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| Id: | 18572
| | Autor: | Bakker, Mirjam I; Hatta, Mochammad; Kwenang, Agnes; Klatser, Paul R; Oskam, Linda
| | Título: | Epidemiology of leprosy on five isolated islands in the Flores Sea, Indonesia
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| | Fonte: | s.l; s.n; 2002. 8 p. tab, graf.
| | Resumo: | We conducted a population-based survey on five small islands in South Sulawesi Province (Indonesia) to collect baseline data previous to a chemoprophylactic intervention study aiming at interrupting the transmission of Mycobacterium leprae. Here we describe the present leprosy epidemiology on these geographically isolated islands. Of the 4774 inhabitants living in the study area 4140 were screened for leprosy (coverage: 87 per cent). We identified 96 leprosy patients (85 new and 11 old patients), representing a new case detection rate (CDR) of 205/10 000 and a prevalence rate of 195/10 000. CDRs were similar for males and females. Male patients were more often classified as multibacillary (MB) than women. Of the new patients, 33 (39 per cent) were classified as MB, 16 (19 per cent) as paucibacillary (PB) 2-5 lesions and 36 (42 per cent) as PB single lesion. In this area of high leprosy endemicity leprosy patients were extensively clustered, i.e. not equally distributed among the islands and within the islands among the houses. (AU).
| | Descritores: | HANSENIASE/epidemiol
HANSENIASE/etiol
TRIAGEM DE MASSA
MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE/isol
PREVALÊNCIA
DISTRIBUICAO POR IDADE
GEOGRAFIA
- DISTRIBUICAO POR SEXO
| | Limites: | HUMANO
MASCULINO
FEMININO
RECÉM-NASCIDO
LACTENTE
PRÉ-ESCOLAR
CRIANÇA
ADULTO
MEIA-IDADE
SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
ADOLESCENTE
| | Meio Eletrônico: | - .
| | Localização: | BR191.1; 09040/s |
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