@article{16969,
  keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, India, Infant, Infant, Newborn, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged, Rural Population, Sex Factors},
  author = {Lal S and Mahalingam C and Garg B R},
  title = {Epidemiology of leprosy in rural population of Pondicherry.},
  abstract = {<p>A village having population of 2000 in 350 families and coming under the Villianur Commune of the Union Territory of Pondicherry was subjected to a total population survey. The population examined was 92.2%. A total of 138 cases of leprosy were found in 94 families making a prevalence rate of 6.9%. There were single cases in 61 families and two to four cases in 33 families. Child rate for leprosy was 37%. The male to female ratio showed no sex predilection. Maximum percentage (30.4%) of cases belonged to maculoanaesthetic type, followed by tuberculoid (27.5%), indeterminate (19.6%), borderline (14.5%), polyneuritic (6.5%) and lepromatous (1.5%) types. Nerve involvement was more frequent in multiple skin lesion cases than in single lesion cases.</p>},
  year = {1982},
  journal = {Leprosy in India},
  volume = {54},
  pages = {677-84},
  month = {1982 Oct},
  issn = {0024-1024},
  language = {eng},
}