【摘要】 <正> 流行病学资料显示,麻风病人的子女发病明显高于一般人群。我们对麻风村病人的子女363人进行了预防性服药的随访观察。共选择住村的麻风病人181户,其子女363人,包括男211人,女152人;其中双亲或一方患MB麻风的137户,患PB麻风的44户,分别有子女275人和88人,其中,91.18％出生于麻风村;8.82％是在未断奶时即随病母入院,长期生活在麻风村,与患病的父母接触时间为1个月～19年,平均6年(表1)。更多还原

【Abstract】 The effect of taking DDS for prevention of leprosy in 363 healthy children accompanying their parents suffering from the disease and living in leprosaria or colonies for four months to 16 years,being 5. 5 years on the average,has been observed for eight to twenty years,and 1822 children of the parents with leprosy at home in the endemicareas who did not take the medicine were regarded ascontrol. No leprosy was seen in the DDS- taking group, but 26 cases of leprosy have been found in the control,of which 23 were less than \A years old when detected. It shows that preventive medicine- . taking might be effective.更多还原