Since a year, the implementation of multidrug therapy on leprosy control in Guinea has been needing a good cooperation between Department of Leprosy Control and local nurses. The known prevalence, in the area of Pita is 1.23%. 246 patients has been detected: 36 multibacillary and 210 paucibacillary. The sex-ratio of the patients has changed, during one year, toward the men. With the sensitivity of the local population, number of detected cases is increasing and the rate of regular attendance at treatment is correct in 87.6% of cases.
BT - Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3219772?dopt=Abstract DA - 1988 IS - 4 J2 - Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales LA - fre N2 -Since a year, the implementation of multidrug therapy on leprosy control in Guinea has been needing a good cooperation between Department of Leprosy Control and local nurses. The known prevalence, in the area of Pita is 1.23%. 246 patients has been detected: 36 multibacillary and 210 paucibacillary. The sex-ratio of the patients has changed, during one year, toward the men. With the sensitivity of the local population, number of detected cases is increasing and the rate of regular attendance at treatment is correct in 87.6% of cases.
PY - 1988 SP - 683 EP - 91 T2 - Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales TI - [Guinea: detection of leprosy and treatment by polychemotherapy]. VL - 81 ER -