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V. P. Shetty, S. D. Ghate, A. V. Wakade, D. V. Thakur, U. H. Thakar and E. D’souza, “Clinical, Bacteriological, and Histopathological Characteristics of Newly Detected Children with Leprosy: A Population Based Study in a Defined Rural and Urban Area of Maharashtra, Western India,” Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venerology, Leprology, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 512-519.

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• TITLE: A Clinco-Bacteriological Study of Leprosy in Paediatric Age Group

  AUTHORS: Leena Das, Bijay Kumar Meher, Nikunja Bihari Das, Deepti Damayanty Pradhan, S. Pradeep, Jayashree Mohanty

  KEYWORDS: Leprosy in Children; Tuberculoid Leprosy; BCG

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Infectious Diseases, Vol.3 No.4, December 6, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Clinico-bacteriological study was done in 51 leprosy patients below 14 years of age. Majority of the patients were males in the age group of 11-14 years. Nearly 84% had not received any prior treatment because of lack of awareness and financial constraints. Only 11.76% had a positive contact history. Skin lesions were present in all cases and 84.3% had lesions mainly on the exposed areas of the body and their number was found to increase significantly with advancing age (p The most common type of skin lesion was borderline tuberculoid (BT) in 53% cases. Positivity of the skin smears increased significantly as the number of the skin lesions per patient increased (p 0.001). Multibacillary cases were seen in 15.6% of cases and found only in the age group of 10-14 years of age. No statistically significant association between BCG vaccination and prevention of leprosy was seen.