TY - JOUR KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Child KW - Child, Preschool KW - Emigration and Immigration KW - Female KW - France KW - Humans KW - Infant KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Middle Aged AU - Samsoen M AU - Basset A AU - Grosshans E AB -

322 new cases of leprosy in France are registered by a postal survey among 11 towns, from 1970 to 1978. 217 are detected in Paris, 105 in other parts of France. 137 are foreigners, 104 come from overseas French territories, 45 are reapatriated French nationals. 39.7% are lepromatous, 43.6% tuberculoid, 13.9% indeterminate. 35 cases are followed out of which 16 cases in Alsace were discovered in Strasbourg.

BT - Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/535112?dopt=Abstract DA - 1979 Jul-Aug IS - 4 J2 - Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales LA - fre N2 -

322 new cases of leprosy in France are registered by a postal survey among 11 towns, from 1970 to 1978. 217 are detected in Paris, 105 in other parts of France. 137 are foreigners, 104 come from overseas French territories, 45 are reapatriated French nationals. 39.7% are lepromatous, 43.6% tuberculoid, 13.9% indeterminate. 35 cases are followed out of which 16 cases in Alsace were discovered in Strasbourg.

PY - 1979 SP - 295 EP - 307 T2 - Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales TI - [Epidemiologic study of leprosy in metropolitan France]. VL - 72 ER -