Alopecia Leprotica: Its Relationship to Transmission of Leprosy

    June 1953 in “ Journal of the American Medical Association ”
    Edward A. Cleve
    TLDR Leprosy is mainly contracted during infancy or childhood.
    The paper discusses the clinical variations of leprosy, focusing on alopecia leprotica, and its relationship to the transmission of leprosy. It highlights the influence of host susceptibility, racial factors, and geographical conditions on these variations. The study uses a natural experiment involving babies in Buddhist regions, where head shaving is a common practice, to compare the contagiousness of leprosy with babies from other regions. The evidence suggests that leprosy is primarily contracted during infancy or childhood rather than in maturity.
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