@article{1935,
  keywords = {Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Hospitals, Rural, Humans, Incidence, India, Infant, leprosy, Male, Rural Population},
  author = {Prasad P V},
  title = {Childhood leprosy in a rural hospital.},
  abstract = {<p>Sixty six cases of childhood leprosy were studied in detail. They comprised of 7.2% of the Hansen's disease cases and 0.1/1000 of the total hospital out patients. Male: female ratio was 2:1. Four cases (6%) only belonged to the multibacillary group. All the multibacillary patients had a family contact of leprosy. Twelve cases (18.2%) showed nerve involvement and 2 cases (3%) had deformities also. One patient had pure neuritic type of leprosy. Leprosy reactions were not observed in any case. Out of 42 patients adequately followed up after completion of treatment, 3 patients (7.1%) had relapse of the disease.</p>},
  year = {1998},
  journal = {Indian journal of pediatrics},
  volume = {65},
  pages = {751-4},
  month = {1998 Sep-Oct},
  issn = {0019-5456},
  doi = {10.1007/bf02731059},
  language = {eng},
}