@article{1430, keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, India, Infant, Infant, Newborn, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged, Sex Factors}, author = {Sehgal V N and Rege V L and Kharangate V N}, title = {Epidemiological and clinical pattern of leprosy in Goa.}, abstract = {
A review of 1,053 patients of leprosy revealed its prevalence in the hospital population as 2.4 per thousand. The commonly affected age group was 20-39 in both sexes; males predominating females in 1.8 : 1. The sequence of frequency of clinical types of leprosy was tuberculoid, borderline, neuritic and lepromatous. Mostly the patients report in the course of 2 years of awareness of the disease. The clinical features were classical and type specific.
}, year = {1976}, journal = {Leprosy in India}, volume = {48}, pages = {382-90}, month = {1976 Oct}, issn = {0024-1024}, language = {eng}, }