Table 1. Summary of the leprosy cases in Qiubei County over an 8 year period (2002–2010).
Population statistics, case detection rate, and the distribution of cases according to township, ethnicity and clinical presentation. The township of YJ does not appear in the table due to zero reported cases.
| Townshipa | Township Populationb | Number of Patients | Detection Rated | Ethnicity
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| Zhuang | Miao | Han | Yi | Other | TT | BT | BB | BL | LL | ||||
| GH | 4.1% | 11 | 7.44 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| GZ | 10.0% | 29 | 7.98 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| SD | 4.0% | 11 | 7.55 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| YZ | 7.3% | 11 | 4.15 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| BDS | 6.7% | 13 | 5.32 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| JP | 9.0% | 13 | 3.98 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| NJ | 5.4% | 5 | 2.56 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| SLY | 12.1% | 6 | 1.36 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| SP | 9.1% | 20 | 6.06 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| TX | 9.3% | 24 | 7.11 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| XD | 4.0% | 12 | 8.30 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| PZ | 7.3% | 3 | 1.13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| WL | 6.9% | 6 | 2.38 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
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| Ethnic Populationc | 27.8% | 14.8% | 37.7% | 16.3% | 3.5% | ||||||||
| Total | 94.9%f | 164 | 4.50 | 60 | 72 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 56 | 7 | 85 | 9 |
| Detection Rated | 5.93 | 13.35 | 1.31 | 1.85 | 2.37 | 0.19 | 1.54 | 0.19 | 2.33 | 0.25 | |||
Two or three letter coding system has been used to represent the names of the 14 townships in Qiubei as previously defined (Weng et al., 2007).
Percentage of the total Qiubei population within a township in 2005.
Percentage of the total Qiubei population belonging to a specific ethnicity in 2005.
Case detection rate is reported as the number of cases detected per 100,000 persons per year.
Ridley-Jopling classification of leprosy based on histopathology of skin biopsy [tuberculoid, TT; borderline tuberculoid, BT; borderline borderline, BB; borderline lepromatous, BL; and lepromatous, LL] (Ridley and Jopling, 1966).
The total population within townships is less than 100% due to the fact that the YJ township and non-township populations are not reported.