@article{10721,
  keywords = {Humans, leprosy, Polynesia},
  author = {Cartel J L and Boutin J P and Plichart R and Roux J and Grosset J H},
  title = {[Leprosy in the French Polynesian archipelagoes from 1967 to 1987].},
  abstract = {<p>Between 1967 and 1987, 255 new cases of leprosy were detected in French Polynesia (FP) that means on average a 8.6% detection rate. Average detection rate calculated in 7 three-year periods did not vary significantly during the 21 years studied period of time. In two remote archipelagoes of FP average detection rate of leprosy is specially high: Gambier archipelago and Southern Marquesas archipelago with respectively a 54.7 and a 48.9% detection rate. To control leprosy, the network of treatment and active case-finding should be strengthened in archipelagoes and chemoprophylaxis programmes could be planned in places where the problem is especially important.</p>},
  year = {1988},
  journal = {Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales},
  volume = {81},
  pages = {819-26},
  month = {1988},
  language = {fre},
}