@article{17766,
  keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Child, Female, Greece, Humans, leprosy, Leprosy, Borderline, Leprosy, lepromatous, Leprosy, Tuberculoid, Male, Middle Aged, Recurrence, Retrospective Studies},
  author = {Kyriakis K P and Kontochristopoulos G J and Panteleos D N},
  title = {Current profile of active leprosy in Greece; a five-year retrospective study (1988-1992).},
  abstract = {<p>The epidemiological characteristics of newly diagnosed, active leprosy cases (incidence, N = 16 Greeks and 4 expatriates) and relapsed cases (recurrences, N = 25, all Greeks) were studied. Most of the cases were multibacillary, over 50% being lepromatous. The relapses were analyzed by sex, disease duration and residence (rural or urban). Most of the newly diagnosed cases presented with nonreactional skin lesions (70%). The relapses were self-reported and detected mainly because of type 2 leprosy reactions (56%). The main source of the infection for new cases was members of their former extended family. The statistical trend of leprosy in Greece is a continuing decline in a country which already has a very low endemicity.</p>
},
  year = {1994},
  journal = {International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association},
  volume = {62},
  pages = {547-51},
  month = {1994 Dec},
  issn = {0148-916X},
  url = {http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v62n4a07.pdf},
  language = {eng},
}