International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 52 N° 1 - Jan/Feb/Mar - 1984

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Hepatotoxicity of the combination of rifampin-ethionamide in the treatment of multibacillary leprosy

Stefaan R. Pattyn; Luk Janssens; Jacques Bourland; Turkun Saylan; Elisabeth M. Davies; Saverio Grillone; Claude Feracci; Collaborative Study Group for the Treatment of Leprosy

2- 2-Acetylpyridine Thiosemicarbazones and Mycobacterium leprae

Charles C. Shepard; Daniel L. Klayman; John P. Scovill; Norman E. Morrison

3- A Study on skin humidity in leprosy patients using a new type of humidity meter

Sten J. Stenstrom

4- Development of an ELISA for detection of antibody in leprosy

James T. Douglas; Susan O. Naka; Jong Wook Lee

5- Field evaluation of an ELISA to detect antibody in leprosy patients and their contacts

James T. Douglas; Robert M. Worth

6- Enumeration of purified suspensions of Mycobacterium leprae

David P. Humber

7- Collection method for Mycobacterium leprae from infected armadillo liver

Tatsuo Mori; Yasuyo Miyata; Kazuo Yoneda; Tonetaro Ito

8- Polyethylene glycol precipitates in serum during and after erythema nodosum leprosum-study of their composition and anticomplementary activity

Kunal Saha; Asit K. Chakrabarty; Vinay K. Sharma; Virender N. Sehgal

9- Variation of superoxide dismutase levels in extracts of Mycobacterium leprae from armadillo liver

Paul R. Wheeler

10- Free subepidermal grenz zone (Band of Unna) in lepromatous leprosy. Histological and ultrastructural findings

Ulrich Martens; Georg Klingmüller

11- Erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL). Ultrastructure of the connective tissue response

Marian J. Ridley; Chris J. Heather; Dennis S. Ridley

12- Use of the life table to eliminate from the active record hansen's disease patients out of control and of unknown where abouts: a six-year experience using this method in the state of Rio Grande do Sul

Jair Ferreira; Cesar Bernardi; Antonio Carlos Gerbase; Alda Maria Py Velloso de Souza; Homero Osvaldo Magajewski

EDITORIALS

13- Immunity to leprosy and the Mitsuda reaction

Charles C. Shepard

14- The 1983 JOURNAL-a continuing perspective

CORRESPONDENCE

15- Epidermal Langerhans' cells in subtypes of leprosy

Narendra K. Mathur; Hari N. Mangal; Dinesh C. Mathur; Uma S. Agrawal

16- Response to Letter of Dr. Mathur, et al.

Liu Jihe

17- Fluorescence microscopy of the fluorescent leprosy antibody absorption test (FLA-ABS)

Hans J. Tanks; Jan Bonnet; Han Huikeshoven; Shirley de Jonge

18- Serological abnormalities in Japanese patients with borderline leprosy

Fukumi Furukawa; Atsushi Kohno; Yoshihiro Hamashima

19- Cultivation of Mycobacterium X from Mycobacterium leprae-infected tissues in propane-tetradecane-humic acid medium

Laszlo Kato

20- Nine cases of rifampin-resistant leprosy

Claire-Cécile Guelpa-Lauras; Jacques H. Grosset; Monique Constant-Desportes; Gilles Brucker