In French Polynesia the cases of leprosy are individually severe but the endemy itself always stood in low limits. The intensive use of modern treatments since 1950 have been making the eredication reasonably possible in the future. However the brutal demographic increase, the deep upsetting of the society and the important migrations made propitious conditions in the urbanized area for the advent of a new centre of infection. The result seems to be an increase of leprosy in the territory.
BT - Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1037615?dopt=Abstract DA - 1976 Sep-Oct IS - 5 J2 - Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales LA - fre N2 -In French Polynesia the cases of leprosy are individually severe but the endemy itself always stood in low limits. The intensive use of modern treatments since 1950 have been making the eredication reasonably possible in the future. However the brutal demographic increase, the deep upsetting of the society and the important migrations made propitious conditions in the urbanized area for the advent of a new centre of infection. The result seems to be an increase of leprosy in the territory.
PY - 1976 SP - 422 EP - 33 T2 - Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales TI - [Impact of a profound change in the structure of a society on the evolution of an endemic disease: leprosy in French Polynesia]. VL - 69 ER -