Epidemiology of leprosy on five isolated islands in the Flores Sea, Indonesia

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 780-787

  Bakker, Mirjam I ^a   Hatta, Mochammad ^a   Kwenang, Agnes ^a   Klatser, Paul R ^a   Oskam, Linda ^a  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clustering; Epidemiology; Indonesia; Leprosy; Mycobacterium leprae

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; ISLAND; LEPROSY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFANT; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; SCREENING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDONESIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEPROSY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

INDONESIA;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036380977     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2002.00931.x     Document Type: Article

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