International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 51 N° 4 - Oct/Nov/Dec - 1983

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Hepatitis in leprosy patients treated by a daily combination of dapsone, rifampin, and a thioamide

Jean-Louis Cartel; Jacques Milian; Claire-Cécile Guelpa-Lauras; Jacques H. Grosset

2- Reversal reaction in lepromatous patients induced by a vaccine containing killed ICRC Bacilli-a report of five cases

Waman S. Bhatki; Ramesh G. Chulawala; Chandrashekar V. Bapat; Madhav G. Deo

3- Sequential histological study of lepromin reaction

K. V. Desikan; Ashok Mukherjee; Gopal Ramu; Vishnu D. Tiwari

4- Fernandez and mitsuda reactivity in guinea pigs sensitized with heat-killed Mycobacterium leprae: persistence and specificity of skin reactivity to soluble and particulate antigens

Frank M. Collins; Norman E. Morrison; Susan R. Watson

5- Exochelin-mediated iron uptake into Mycobacterium leprae

Richard Malcolm Hall; Paul Robert Wheeler; Colin Ratledge

6- Leprosy in Italy

Donato Greco; Maria Rosaria Galanti

7- Report of the SEA RO/WPRO/IM M LEP/THELEP Joint Scientific Meeting on Leprosy 1981 and the Joint Indian and IMMLEP Scientific Meeting on Immunoepidemiology of Leprosy

REPRINTED ARTICLE

8- Leprosy review: the bacteriology of Mycobacterium leprae

Philip Draper

EDITORIALS

9- Neuropathies in hansen's disease

Claudio B. Charosky; Juan Carlos Gatti; Jose E. Cardama

OBITUARY

10- Ricardo S. Guinto, M.D., M.P.H. Epidemiologist-Leprologist 1907-1983

Chapman H. Binford; Claude V. Reich

CORRESPONDENCE

11- Chemotherapy of Leprosy; "Bubble" or "Calendar" packs for the administration of rifampin, dapsone, clofazimine, or prothionamide/ethionamide

Bryan E. Winsley, B.Pharm; A. Colin; Kenneth E. Brown

NEWS AND NOTES

12- News and Notes

BOOK REVIEWS

13- Book reviews

CURRENT LITERATURE

14- Current Literature

U. S. - JAPAN COOPERATIVE MEDICAL SCIENCE PROGRAM

15- Eighteenth joint leprosy research conference

Masahide Abe