Rates of leprosy cases newly reporting during 1986 are examined for a region of south-eastern Nigeria. Figures reveal that in the part of the region which was designated in 1987 as a new state, half of the administrative units had new case reporting rates higher than in adjacent areas, while the other half had very few cases reporting in 1986. Possible explanations are offered and the implications of the pattern for leprosy control in the new state are examined.
BT - Leprosy review C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2215061?dopt=Abstract CN - BRIGHTMER1990 DA - 1990 Sep IS - 3 J2 - Lepr Rev LA - eng N2 -Rates of leprosy cases newly reporting during 1986 are examined for a region of south-eastern Nigeria. Figures reveal that in the part of the region which was designated in 1987 as a new state, half of the administrative units had new case reporting rates higher than in adjacent areas, while the other half had very few cases reporting in 1986. Possible explanations are offered and the implications of the pattern for leprosy control in the new state are examined.
PY - 1990 SP - 273 EP - 81 T2 - Leprosy review TI - New cases of leprosy in the Cross River Region, Nigeria. UR - http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1990/v61n3/pdf/v61n3a10.pdf VL - 61 SN - 0305-7518 ER -