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Childhood Leprosy: A Retrospective Descriptive Study from Delhi
BACKGROUND: Childhood leprosy is an important marker of the status of the ongoing leprosy control programme, as it is an indicator of active disease transmission in the community. Despite achievement of elimination status of leprosy in 2005, the reported prevalence of childhood cases continue to be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6233040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30504971 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_99_17 |
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author | Ghunawat, Sneha Relhan, Vineet Mittal, Shankila Sandhu, Jaspriya Garg, Vijay Kumar |
author_facet | Ghunawat, Sneha Relhan, Vineet Mittal, Shankila Sandhu, Jaspriya Garg, Vijay Kumar |
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description | BACKGROUND: Childhood leprosy is an important marker of the status of the ongoing leprosy control programme, as it is an indicator of active disease transmission in the community. Despite achievement of elimination status of leprosy in 2005, the reported prevalence of childhood cases continue to be high. METHOD: A retrospective analysis of 11 year records of leprosy patients aged less than 15 years in a tertiary care hospital of central Delhi was carried out from 2005-2015. Data were analysed using SPSS 22.0 system. RESULT: A total of 113 (7.6%) cases of childhood leprosy were reported during the 11 year period from 2005-2015. Multibacillary cases constituted a total of 57 (50.4%), while paucibacillary constituted 56 (49.6%) cases. The M:F ratio noted was 2.5:1. Signs of reaction were found in 15% cases, while deformity was noted in 24.7% cases. CONCLUSION: The rate of childhood leprosy continues to be high. Lack of proper access to health facilities, ignorance among the general population, high susceptibility due to immature immune system etc make this population highly vulnerable. LIMITATIONS: Limited data of 11 years from an urban center were analyzed. |
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spelling | pubmed-62330402018-11-30 Childhood Leprosy: A Retrospective Descriptive Study from Delhi Ghunawat, Sneha Relhan, Vineet Mittal, Shankila Sandhu, Jaspriya Garg, Vijay Kumar Indian J Dermatol Original Article BACKGROUND: Childhood leprosy is an important marker of the status of the ongoing leprosy control programme, as it is an indicator of active disease transmission in the community. Despite achievement of elimination status of leprosy in 2005, the reported prevalence of childhood cases continue to be high. METHOD: A retrospective analysis of 11 year records of leprosy patients aged less than 15 years in a tertiary care hospital of central Delhi was carried out from 2005-2015. Data were analysed using SPSS 22.0 system. RESULT: A total of 113 (7.6%) cases of childhood leprosy were reported during the 11 year period from 2005-2015. Multibacillary cases constituted a total of 57 (50.4%), while paucibacillary constituted 56 (49.6%) cases. The M:F ratio noted was 2.5:1. Signs of reaction were found in 15% cases, while deformity was noted in 24.7% cases. CONCLUSION: The rate of childhood leprosy continues to be high. Lack of proper access to health facilities, ignorance among the general population, high susceptibility due to immature immune system etc make this population highly vulnerable. LIMITATIONS: Limited data of 11 years from an urban center were analyzed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6233040/ /pubmed/30504971 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_99_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ghunawat, Sneha Relhan, Vineet Mittal, Shankila Sandhu, Jaspriya Garg, Vijay Kumar Childhood Leprosy: A Retrospective Descriptive Study from Delhi |
title | Childhood Leprosy: A Retrospective Descriptive Study from Delhi |
title_full | Childhood Leprosy: A Retrospective Descriptive Study from Delhi |
title_fullStr | Childhood Leprosy: A Retrospective Descriptive Study from Delhi |
title_full_unstemmed | Childhood Leprosy: A Retrospective Descriptive Study from Delhi |
title_short | Childhood Leprosy: A Retrospective Descriptive Study from Delhi |
title_sort | childhood leprosy: a retrospective descriptive study from delhi |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6233040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30504971 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_99_17 |
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