01440nas a2200337   4500000000100000008004100001260000900042653001500051653001000066653000900076653001000085653002100095653001100116653001100127653001400138653001100152653002300163653001200186653000900198653001600207653001800223653001500241653001500256653002600271100001400297245006900311300001100380490000700391520069000398022001401088       1999                            d  c199910aAdolescent10aAdult10aAged10aChild10aChild, Preschool10aFemale10aHumans10aIncidence10aInfant10aLeprostatic Agents10aleprosy10aMale10aMiddle Aged10aNew Caledonia10aPrevalence10aRecurrence10aRetrospective Studies1 aCrouzat M00a[Profile of leprosy in New Caledonia. Evolution from 1983-1998].  a139-440 v113 a<p>The authors report the results of a retrospective study on the evolution of leprosy in New-Caledonia, French island in Oceania, between 1983, time of the onset of polychemotherapy (PCT), and 1998. Since 1996, the prevalence is and remains less than 1/10,000. The annual rate detection fall from 15.6 in 1983 to 2.48/100,000 in 1998. Less than 10 new cases are detected annually since 1994. During this period, the number of new patients less than 15-years old decreased and the percentage of multibacillary patients increased, assessing a priori the improvement of the endemicity. One case of relapse was detected in a MB patients treated for 2 years among the 231 new patients.</p>  a0001-5938