Trends of case detection and other indicators of leprosy in China during 1985-2002 / 中国医学科学杂志(英文版)
Chinese Medical Sciences Journal
; (4): 77-82, 2005.
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<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>
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Sujet Principal:
Récidive
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Chine
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Contrôle des maladies transmissibles
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Épidémiologie
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Incidence
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Facteurs âges
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Dapsone
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Utilisations thérapeutiques
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Évaluation de l'invalidité
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Traitement médicamenteux
Type d'étude:
Diagnostic_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limites du sujet:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Humans
Pays comme sujet:
Asia
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En
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Chinese Medical Sciences Journal
Année:
2005
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Article