Perfil da Hanseníase num município do alto sertão paraibano entre 2008 a 2012.

Abstract

Leprosy is an infectious disease - contagious, compulsory notification, disabling, high infectivity and low pathogenicity. It is caused by Mycobacterium leprae, which has affinity for peripheral nerves and skin tissue, characterized - if for neural and changes in sensation. It is transmitted from individual untreated multibacillary for what is likely. For operational purposes, the condition is classified as multibacillary and paucibacillary, presenting as clinical forms: lepromatous, borderline, tuberculoid and indeterminate. The classification is done based operating by the number of injuries to up to five paucibacillary lesions, above five, multibacillary. Hansen brings stigma and prejudice of its historical evolution, based on religious beliefs and compulsory isolation, gradually ideas that have been addressed with the introduction of MDT default, causing the carrier of the disease can live in family and social environment, to be an important epidemiological problem, was constructed using data provided by the municipal health Cajazeiras - PB, through its surveillance department, an analysis of reported leprosy cases in the period 2008-2012.