Avelleira João Carlos Regazzi, Bernardes Filho Fred, Quaresma Maria Victória, Vianna Francisco Reis
Instituto de Dermatologia Professor Rubem David Azulay, Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Instituto Estadual de Dermatologia Sanitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
An Bras Dermatol. 2014 May-Jun;89(3):515-8. doi: 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20142781.
The record of the first cases of leprosy in Rio de Janeiro dates from the seventeenth century. The first local host of leprosy patients was created from 1741, and the first colonies hospitals were built in the early twentieth century, in order to avoid contagion of the population. The first structures dedicated to research also date from this time: the Leprosy International Institute, the Leprology Institute, and the Leprosy Laboratory of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, where the most prestigious leprologists of Rio de Janeiro worked. Currently, investigations are focused on the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation; additionally, leprosy patients are treated at municipal health centers and state hospitals, and former colony hospitals only accept patients with severe disabilities.
里约热内卢首批麻风病病例的记录可追溯到17世纪。1741年设立了首个麻风病患者本地收容所,20世纪初建造了首批殖民地医院,以避免疾病传播给民众。首批专门用于研究的机构也始于这个时期:国际麻风病研究所、麻风病学研究所,以及奥斯瓦尔多·克鲁兹基金会的麻风病实验室,里约热内卢最负盛名的麻风病专家曾在此工作。目前,研究工作集中在奥斯瓦尔多·克鲁兹基金会;此外,麻风病患者在市立卫生中心和州立医院接受治疗,而以前的殖民地医院只接收重度残疾患者。