TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Age Factors
KW - Educational Status
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - India
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Poverty Areas
KW - Prevalence
KW - Rural Population
KW - Sex Factors
KW - Socioeconomic Factors
KW - Sunlight
KW - Urban Population
AU - Kumar A
AU - Girdhar A
AU - Yadav V S
AU - Girdhar B K
AB - <p>This population sample survey conducted in rural and urban areas of the Agra District in India showed an active leprosy caseload of 60.1/10,000 in the rural and 39.1/10,000 in the urban areas against a targeted prevalence of < 1/10,000. The disease appeared to be widespread since almost 65% of the villages or urban pockets surveyed had at least one prevalent case of leprosy. Significantly larger numbers of leprosy patients were found among males, agricultural/manual workers, persons with no formal schooling, individuals living in unkept households with dirty surroundings, and among those living in dark and poorly ventilated houses. The epidemiological significance of this study reveals the endemic nature of leprosy in Agra and suggests the need to intensify and widen case-detection activities to achieve leprosy control.</p>
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11875768?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2001 Sep
IS - 3
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>This population sample survey conducted in rural and urban areas of the Agra District in India showed an active leprosy caseload of 60.1/10,000 in the rural and 39.1/10,000 in the urban areas against a targeted prevalence of < 1/10,000. The disease appeared to be widespread since almost 65% of the villages or urban pockets surveyed had at least one prevalent case of leprosy. Significantly larger numbers of leprosy patients were found among males, agricultural/manual workers, persons with no formal schooling, individuals living in unkept households with dirty surroundings, and among those living in dark and poorly ventilated houses. The epidemiological significance of this study reveals the endemic nature of leprosy in Agra and suggests the need to intensify and widen case-detection activities to achieve leprosy control.</p>
PY - 2001
SP - 234
EP - 40
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Some epidemiological observations on leprosy in India.
UR - http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v69n3a08.pdf
VL - 69
SN - 0148-916X
ER -