Active surveillance of Hansen's Disease (leprosy): importance for case finding among extra-domiciliary contacts.
Hansen's disease (leprosy) remains an important health problem in Brazil, where 34,894 new cases were diagnosed in 2010, corresponding to 15.3% of the world's new cases detected in that year. The purpose of this study was to use home visits as a tool for surveillance of Hansen's disea...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:a1f94d71c71241b3a73173954fdbf37f 2023-05-15T15:07:50+02:00 Active surveillance of Hansen's Disease (leprosy): importance for case finding among extra-domiciliary contacts. Maria L N Moura Kathryn M Dupnik Gabriel A A Sampaio Priscilla F C Nóbrega Ana K Jeronimo Jose M do Nascimento-Filho Roberta L Miranda Dantas Jose W Queiroz James D Barbosa Gutemberg Dias Selma M B Jeronimo Marcia C F Souza Maurício L Nobre 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002093 https://doaj.org/article/a1f94d71c71241b3a73173954fdbf37f EN eng Public Library of Science (PLoS) http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3597486?pdf=render https://doaj.org/toc/1935-2727 https://doaj.org/toc/1935-2735 1935-2727 1935-2735 doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002093 https://doaj.org/article/a1f94d71c71241b3a73173954fdbf37f PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 7, Iss 3, p e2093 (2013) Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article 2013 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002093 2022-12-31T00:12:16Z Hansen's disease (leprosy) remains an important health problem in Brazil, where 34,894 new cases were diagnosed in 2010, corresponding to 15.3% of the world's new cases detected in that year. The purpose of this study was to use home visits as a tool for surveillance of Hansen's disease in a hyperendemic area in Brazil. A total of 258 residences were visited with 719 individuals examined. Of these, 82 individuals had had a previous history of Hansen's disease, 209 were their household contacts and 428 lived in neighboring residences. Fifteen new Hansen's disease cases were confirmed, yielding a detection rate of 2.0% of people examined. There was no difference in the detection rate between household and neighbor contacts (p = 0.615). The two groups had the same background in relation to education (p = 0.510), household income (p = 0.582), and the number of people living in the residence (p = 0.188). Spatial analysis showed clustering of newly diagnosed cases and association with residential coordinates of previously diagnosed multibacillary cases. Active case finding is an important tool for Hansen's disease control in hyperendemic areas, enabling earlier diagnosis, treatment, decrease in disability from Hansen's disease and potentially less spread of Mycobacterium leprae. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 7 3 e2093 |
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Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 Maria L N Moura Kathryn M Dupnik Gabriel A A Sampaio Priscilla F C Nóbrega Ana K Jeronimo Jose M do Nascimento-Filho Roberta L Miranda Dantas Jose W Queiroz James D Barbosa Gutemberg Dias Selma M B Jeronimo Marcia C F Souza Maurício L Nobre Active surveillance of Hansen's Disease (leprosy): importance for case finding among extra-domiciliary contacts. |
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Hansen's disease (leprosy) remains an important health problem in Brazil, where 34,894 new cases were diagnosed in 2010, corresponding to 15.3% of the world's new cases detected in that year. The purpose of this study was to use home visits as a tool for surveillance of Hansen's disease in a hyperendemic area in Brazil. A total of 258 residences were visited with 719 individuals examined. Of these, 82 individuals had had a previous history of Hansen's disease, 209 were their household contacts and 428 lived in neighboring residences. Fifteen new Hansen's disease cases were confirmed, yielding a detection rate of 2.0% of people examined. There was no difference in the detection rate between household and neighbor contacts (p = 0.615). The two groups had the same background in relation to education (p = 0.510), household income (p = 0.582), and the number of people living in the residence (p = 0.188). Spatial analysis showed clustering of newly diagnosed cases and association with residential coordinates of previously diagnosed multibacillary cases. Active case finding is an important tool for Hansen's disease control in hyperendemic areas, enabling earlier diagnosis, treatment, decrease in disability from Hansen's disease and potentially less spread of Mycobacterium leprae. |
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Maria L N Moura Kathryn M Dupnik Gabriel A A Sampaio Priscilla F C Nóbrega Ana K Jeronimo Jose M do Nascimento-Filho Roberta L Miranda Dantas Jose W Queiroz James D Barbosa Gutemberg Dias Selma M B Jeronimo Marcia C F Souza Maurício L Nobre |
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Maria L N Moura Kathryn M Dupnik Gabriel A A Sampaio Priscilla F C Nóbrega Ana K Jeronimo Jose M do Nascimento-Filho Roberta L Miranda Dantas Jose W Queiroz James D Barbosa Gutemberg Dias Selma M B Jeronimo Marcia C F Souza Maurício L Nobre |
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Active surveillance of Hansen's Disease (leprosy): importance for case finding among extra-domiciliary contacts. |
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Active surveillance of Hansen's Disease (leprosy): importance for case finding among extra-domiciliary contacts. |
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Active surveillance of Hansen's Disease (leprosy): importance for case finding among extra-domiciliary contacts. |
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Active surveillance of Hansen's Disease (leprosy): importance for case finding among extra-domiciliary contacts. |
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Active surveillance of Hansen's Disease (leprosy): importance for case finding among extra-domiciliary contacts. |
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active surveillance of hansen's disease (leprosy): importance for case finding among extra-domiciliary contacts. |
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