TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Age Factors
KW - Child
KW - China
KW - Communicable Disease Control
KW - Dapsone
KW - Disability Evaluation
KW - Drug Therapy, Combination
KW - Humans
KW - Incidence
KW - Leprostatic Agents
KW - leprosy
KW - Recurrence
AU - Shen J
AU - Gupte M D
AU - Jiang C
AU - Manickam P
AU - Yu M
AU - Li W
AB - <p><b>OBJECTIVE: </b>To analyze the trends of case detection and other indicators of leprosy in China during 1985-2002.</p><p><b>METHODS: </b>Data reported by each province were collected by China National Leprosy Database in Nanjing P.R. China. All data about registered cases were put into computer for analysis.</p><p><b>RESULTS: </b>From 1985 to 2002, a total of 49,477 new leprosy cases had been detected. Among them, 69.5% were multibacillary cases and 25.4% had grade 2 disability. The child cases aged below 15 years accounted for 3.74% of total cases. Totally, 5824 cases and 303 cases relapsed after dapsone (DDS) mono-therapy and multidrug therapy (MDT), respectively. Case detection showed a marked reduction from 0.47/100,000 in 1985 to 0.18/100,000 in 1993 although there were several spurts due to operational factors. From 1994, case detection showed no significant decline. The grade 2 disability among new patients decreased from 31.4% in 1985 to 23.4% in 2002. The child case detection rate among new cases fluctuated between 2.70%-3.56% from 1999 to 2002. The incidence of relapse declined after the introduction of DDS mono-therapy. However, it increased after the introduction of MDT.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION: </b>China experiences in leprosy control show that it will take a long time with continuing present leprosy control activities to bring down the case detection and other indicators to a very low level even after reaching the elimination goal of leprosy.</p>
BT - Chinese medical sciences journal = Chung-kuo i hsueh k'o hsueh tsa chih
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16075742?dopt=Abstract
CN - SHEN2005
DA - 2005 Jun
IS - 2
J2 - Chin. Med. Sci. J.
LA - eng
N2 - <p><b>OBJECTIVE: </b>To analyze the trends of case detection and other indicators of leprosy in China during 1985-2002.</p><p><b>METHODS: </b>Data reported by each province were collected by China National Leprosy Database in Nanjing P.R. China. All data about registered cases were put into computer for analysis.</p><p><b>RESULTS: </b>From 1985 to 2002, a total of 49,477 new leprosy cases had been detected. Among them, 69.5% were multibacillary cases and 25.4% had grade 2 disability. The child cases aged below 15 years accounted for 3.74% of total cases. Totally, 5824 cases and 303 cases relapsed after dapsone (DDS) mono-therapy and multidrug therapy (MDT), respectively. Case detection showed a marked reduction from 0.47/100,000 in 1985 to 0.18/100,000 in 1993 although there were several spurts due to operational factors. From 1994, case detection showed no significant decline. The grade 2 disability among new patients decreased from 31.4% in 1985 to 23.4% in 2002. The child case detection rate among new cases fluctuated between 2.70%-3.56% from 1999 to 2002. The incidence of relapse declined after the introduction of DDS mono-therapy. However, it increased after the introduction of MDT.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION: </b>China experiences in leprosy control show that it will take a long time with continuing present leprosy control activities to bring down the case detection and other indicators to a very low level even after reaching the elimination goal of leprosy.</p>
PY - 2005
SP - 77
EP - 82
T2 - Chinese medical sciences journal = Chung-kuo i hsueh k'o hsueh tsa chih
TI - Trends of case detection and other indicators of leprosy in China during 1985-2002.
VL - 20
SN - 1001-9294
ER -