%0 Journal Article
%T A Clinco-Bacteriological Study of Leprosy in Paediatric Age Group
%A Leena Das
%A Bijay Kumar Meher
%A Nikunja Bihari Das
%A Deepti Damayanty Pradhan
%A S. Pradeep
%A Jayashree Mohanty
%J Advances in Infectious Diseases
%P 269-273
%@ 2164-2656
%D 2013
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/aid.2013.34041
%X <p style=\"text-align:justify;\">
	<span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Clinico</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">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</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-</span><span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">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 (</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">p</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> &lt; 0.005). These lesions were hypo-pigmented
patches in 88% cases. 88% of cases had hypo-anesthesia and nerve thickening was
observed in 24% cases. </span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">The m</span><span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ost 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 (</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">p</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> &lt;</span></span><span> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">0.001). Multibacillary cases were seen
in 15.6% of cases and found only in the age group of 10</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">14 years of age. No statistically significant
association between BCG vaccination and prevention of leprosy was seen.</span><span></span>
</p>
%K Leprosy in Children
%K Tuberculoid Leprosy
%K BCG
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=40514