Data give evidence of: 1) a progressive decrease of the infections with a significant fall in the school age group; 2) an almost constant number of infectious patients; 3) a growing importance of the detection by private practioners. Passive detection detects patients who, in most cases, are more seriously infected than those detected by active detection. Active detection is the only effective leprosy prophylactic method.
BT - Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7382791?dopt=Abstract DA - 1980 Mar-Apr IS - 2 J2 - Med Trop (Mars) LA - fre N2 -Data give evidence of: 1) a progressive decrease of the infections with a significant fall in the school age group; 2) an almost constant number of infectious patients; 3) a growing importance of the detection by private practioners. Passive detection detects patients who, in most cases, are more seriously infected than those detected by active detection. Active detection is the only effective leprosy prophylactic method.
PY - 1980 SP - 161 EP - 8 T2 - Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial TI - [Detection of leprosy in a district of Guadeloupe (F.W.I.). Organisation and evaluation (1973-1978) (author's transl)]. VL - 40 SN - 0025-682X ER -