Between 1967 and 1987, 255 new cases of leprosy were detected in French Polynesia (FP) that means on average a 8.6% detection rate. Average detection rate calculated in 7 three-year periods did not vary significantly during the 21 years studied period of time. In two remote archipelagoes of FP average detection rate of leprosy is specially high: Gambier archipelago and Southern Marquesas archipelago with respectively a 54.7 and a 48.9% detection rate. To control leprosy, the network of treatment and active case-finding should be strengthened in archipelagoes and chemoprophylaxis programmes could be planned in places where the problem is especially important.
BT - Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3240567?dopt=Abstract DA - 1988 IS - 5 J2 - Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales LA - fre N2 -Between 1967 and 1987, 255 new cases of leprosy were detected in French Polynesia (FP) that means on average a 8.6% detection rate. Average detection rate calculated in 7 three-year periods did not vary significantly during the 21 years studied period of time. In two remote archipelagoes of FP average detection rate of leprosy is specially high: Gambier archipelago and Southern Marquesas archipelago with respectively a 54.7 and a 48.9% detection rate. To control leprosy, the network of treatment and active case-finding should be strengthened in archipelagoes and chemoprophylaxis programmes could be planned in places where the problem is especially important.
PY - 1988 SP - 819 EP - 26 T2 - Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales TI - [Leprosy in the French Polynesian archipelagoes from 1967 to 1987]. VL - 81 ER -