TY - JOUR KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Age Factors KW - Aged KW - Child KW - Child, Preschool KW - Female KW - Humans KW - India KW - Infant KW - Infant, Newborn KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Sex Factors AU - Sehgal V N AU - Rege V L AU - Kharangate V N AB -
A review of 1,053 patients of leprosy revealed its prevalence in the hospital population as 2.4 per thousand. The commonly affected age group was 20-39 in both sexes; males predominating females in 1.8 : 1. The sequence of frequency of clinical types of leprosy was tuberculoid, borderline, neuritic and lepromatous. Mostly the patients report in the course of 2 years of awareness of the disease. The clinical features were classical and type specific.
BT - Leprosy in India C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1022976?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 1976 Oct IS - 4 J2 - Lepr India LA - eng N2 -A review of 1,053 patients of leprosy revealed its prevalence in the hospital population as 2.4 per thousand. The commonly affected age group was 20-39 in both sexes; males predominating females in 1.8 : 1. The sequence of frequency of clinical types of leprosy was tuberculoid, borderline, neuritic and lepromatous. Mostly the patients report in the course of 2 years of awareness of the disease. The clinical features were classical and type specific.
PY - 1976 SP - 382 EP - 90 T2 - Leprosy in India TI - Epidemiological and clinical pattern of leprosy in Goa. VL - 48 SN - 0024-1024 ER -