Sachdeva Sandeep, Khan Zulfia, Ansari Mohd Athar, Amin Syed Suhail
JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University-Community Medicine, 3/115 A Durgabadi Marris Road Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India 202002.
Trop Doct. 2011 Jan;41(1):28-30. doi: 10.1258/td.2010.100107. Epub 2010 Nov 18.
Leprosy is a chronic disabling disease and there are areas of high endemicity in India. Case findings and management strategies suffer a setback when disease manifestations are not picked up in time by health-care providers. This article attempts to estimate the annual incidents of leprosy and to study the confounding factors which may potentially cause delays in diagnosis in an office-based, tertiary health-care setting.
麻风病是一种慢性致残性疾病，在印度存在高流行地区。当医疗服务提供者未能及时发现疾病表现时，病例发现和管理策略就会受挫。本文试图估算麻风病的年发病率，并研究在一个以门诊为基础的三级医疗环境中可能导致诊断延迟的混杂因素。
