@article{18042,
  keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, India, Infant, Infant, Newborn, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged, Mycobacterium leprae},
  author = {Chatterjee B R and TAYLOR C E and Thomas J and Naidu G N},
  title = {Acid-fast bacillary positivity in asymptomatic individuals in leprosy endemic villages around Jhalda in West Bengal.},
  abstract = {<p>Three general surveys of a village population of 7000 in a highly endemic area in Purulia District, West Bengal, have included clinical examination and earlobe skin snip examinations. Multiple between-survey follow-up examinations have also been conducted of both bacillary positives and cases. In the general population 5.8% of the individuals showed bacteriological positivity with a concentration technique for AFB without showing clinical signs of infection. During two years of observation clinical leprosy was diagnosed in 13.6% of bacillary positives, in 4.8% of nuclear family contacts of clinical cases and 2.3% of the rest of the general population of the villages.</p>},
  year = {1976},
  journal = {Leprosy in India},
  volume = {48},
  pages = {119-31},
  month = {1976 Apr},
  issn = {0024-1024},
  language = {eng},
}