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[Guinea: detection of leprosy and treatment by polychemotherapy]
P Bourée1, N Carré, S Drahmane
1Service de Médecine tropicale et Parasitologie, Kremlin-Bicêtre.
Bulletin De La Societe De Pathologie Exotique Et De Ses Filiales
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
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.