TY - JOUR KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - Child KW - Child, Preschool KW - Ethnic Groups KW - Female KW - Humans KW - India KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Socioeconomic Factors KW - Urban Population AU - Ojha K S AU - Chaudhary R C AU - Choudhary S K AB -
In a house to house study of leprosy cases at Jaipur (148) a majority (91) had NL leprosy, 50 had LL leprosy and remaining 7 had indeterminate leprosy. More cases (84.5%) had a poor housing, overcrowding, low socioeconomic status. Out of 59 persons giving history of contact a majority had it at home and others at work places. The period of contact was more than five years in 74.6% cases. Most of the cases had lesions on exposed or easily accessible parts of the body.
BT - Indian journal of leprosy C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6549460?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 1984 Oct-Dec IS - 4 J2 - Indian J Lepr LA - eng N2 -In a house to house study of leprosy cases at Jaipur (148) a majority (91) had NL leprosy, 50 had LL leprosy and remaining 7 had indeterminate leprosy. More cases (84.5%) had a poor housing, overcrowding, low socioeconomic status. Out of 59 persons giving history of contact a majority had it at home and others at work places. The period of contact was more than five years in 74.6% cases. Most of the cases had lesions on exposed or easily accessible parts of the body.
PY - 1984 SP - 884 EP - 8 T2 - Indian journal of leprosy TI - Socio-environmental factors in relation to leprosy at Jaipur. VL - 56 SN - 0254-9395 ER -