title: [Profile of leprosy in New Caledonia. Evolution from 1983-1998].
abstract: The authors report the results of a retrospective study on the evolution of leprosy in New-Caledonia, French island in Oceania, between 1983, time of the onset of polychemotherapy (PCT), and 1998. Since 1996, the prevalence is and remains less than 1/10,000. The annual rate detection fall from 15.6 in 1983 to 2.48/100,000 in 1998. Less than 10 new cases are detected annually since 1994. During this period, the number of new patients less than 15-years old decreased and the percentage of multibacillary patients increased, assessing a priori the improvement of the endemicity. One case of relapse was detected in a MB patients treated for 2 years among the 231 new patients.
authors.affiliation: Service de Dermatologie, CHT Gaston Bourret, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Crouzat
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007917:Leprostatic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007918:Leprosy / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009510:New Caledonia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D007917:Leprostatic Agents