Acid Fast Positivity Rate and Associated Factors of Leprosy in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Northeastern Ethiopia: Its Implication for Evidence-Based Leprosy Prevention and Control.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

Leprosy is one of the most common skin neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia posing social stigma, physical disability, deformity, discrimination, loss of social status, and poor quality of life in families. Hence, evidence-based collaborative inter-sectoral actions should be performed to reduce and eliminate its burden in endemic areas. Thus, the aim of this study was to assess the acid-fast positivity rate and associated factors of leprosy among suspected cases in Northeastern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.

Method

A cross-sectional study was conducted from September 2022 to March 2023 among 256 leprosy-suspected cases selected using a simple random sampling technique. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect socio-demographic, clinical,

SUBMITTER: Gedefie A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11540807 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature