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prevention and control
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It's an epidemiological inquiry about leprosy in Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais state. The study was conducted to verify if the detection decrease in the illness taxes from 1998 to 2002 were due to operational problems in endemic disease control measurements or to transmission force loss. That's one of the greatest trend analysis of the endemic disease in Brazil. Data from citizens of 51 cities of the Jequitinhonha Valley were collected from leprosy notification cases records from1998 to 2002. It was found detection taxes decrease, multibacillary clinical forms prevalence, low ratios of discovered cases from contact examination and high percentage of pacients with some disability. Epidemiologic and operational indicators suggested an expansion of the endemia, although detection taxes decrease in last years. These factors show the necessity of disease control strategies implementation.
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in last years. These factors show the necessity of disease control strategies implementation. Key-words: leprosy; epidemiology; prevention and control
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