TY - JOUR
KW - leprosy
KW - Childhood leprosy
KW - Brazil
KW - Borderline leprosy
AU - Santos M J S
AU - Ferrari C K B
AU - Toledo O R
AU - Moraes E V
AU - David F L
AB - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Leprosy is yet an important infectious disease in Brazil. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of leprosy among children and adolescents in a countryside city from Legal Amazon region.

RESULTS: there was a high frequency of Hansen's disease among children from 5 to 9 years-old, predominantly females, with multibacillary form, and dimorphous types.

CONCLUSION: due to late diagnosis and higher frequency of treatment abandonment leprosy is a serious public health problem among children and adolescents is this small city.

BT - Indian journal of leprosy
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23720891
CN - SANTOS 2012
IS - 4
J2 - Indian J Lepr
LA - eng
N2 - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Leprosy is yet an important infectious disease in Brazil. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of leprosy among children and adolescents in a countryside city from Legal Amazon region.

RESULTS: there was a high frequency of Hansen's disease among children from 5 to 9 years-old, predominantly females, with multibacillary form, and dimorphous types.

CONCLUSION: due to late diagnosis and higher frequency of treatment abandonment leprosy is a serious public health problem among children and adolescents is this small city.

PY - 2012
SP - 265
EP - 269
T2 - Indian journal of leprosy
TI - Leprosy among children and adolescents under 15 years-old in a city of Legal Amazon, Brazil
UR - http://ijl.org.in/oct-dec-2012/2%20MJS%20Santos%20(265-269).pdf
VL - 84
ER -