International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 50 N° 4 - Oct/Nov/Dec - 1982

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Immunotherapy with a mixture of Mycobacterium leprae and BCG in different forms of leprosy and in Mitsuda-negative contacts

Jacinto Convit; Nacarid Aranzazu; Marian Ulrich; Maria E. Pinardi; Oscar Reyes; Jorge Alvarado

2- Pregnancy and leprosy: the consequences of alterations of cell-mediated and humoral immunity during pregnancy and lactation

M. Elizabeth Duncan; John M. H. Pearson; Dennis S. Ridley; Reidar Melsom; Gunnar Bjune

3- The epidemiological evaluation, in Burma, of the skin test reagent LRA6; a Cell-free extract from armadillo-derived Mycobacterium leprae. Part 1: leprosy patients

Michael J. Shield; John L. Stanford; Gallego Garbajosa; Philip Draper; Richard J. W. Rees

4- The epidemiological evaluation, in Burma, of the skin test reagent LRA6; a Cell-free Extract from armadillo-derived Mycobacterium leprae. Part 2: close contacts and non-contacts of bacilliferous leprosy patients

Michael J. Shield; John L. Stanford

5- In vitro lymphocyte stimulation in patients with lepromatous and borderline tuberculoid leprosy. the effect of dapsone treatment on the response to Mycobacterium leprae antigens, tuberculin purified protein derivative and non-mycobacterial stimulants

Liv Jorun Reitan; Otto Closs; Ayele Belehu

6- Effect of dapsone on blood lactic and pyruvic acids in leprosy

Surendra N. Sinha; Suresh C. Gupta; Ashok K. Bajaj; Navin P. Srivastava; Triyugi N. Mehrotra

7- Observations on ultrastructure of histoid leproma

Liu Jihe; Kong Qingying; Ye Gan-yun; Xia Mingyu; Huang Li; Zhu Wenyuan

8- The morphology of bacilli at different levels of the dermal infiltrate in lepromatous leprosy

B. K. Girdhar; A. Colin McDougall

9- Failure to validate the growth of Mycobacterium leprae on M-Y 14b agar medium

Masahiro Nakamura; Yoshiyasu Matsuo; Tatsuo Mori; Seitaro Okada; Tetsu Nakayama; Hajime Saito; Tonetaro Ito; Yuichi Koseki; Tatsuji Ogawa; Shigenori Ishihara; Kenji Kohsaka; Kagunari Nakamura; Morizo Ishidate

10- Borderline leprosy in an experimentally infected armadillo

Charles K. Job; Waldemar F. Kirchheimer; Rita M. Sanchez

11- Lack of a sustained protection against murine leprosy in C3H nice vaccinated with extracts of Mycobacterium lepraemurium in admixture with Mycobacterium bovis (BCG)

Raymond Turcotte; Suzanne Lemieux

EDITORIALS

12- Macrophages versus lymphocytes in leprosy

Bernardo Beiguelman

OBITUARY

13- Felix Sagher, M.D. 1908-1982

Jacob Sheskin; Louis Levy

CORRESPONDENCE

14- Gilbert's syndrome (Criggler-Najjar Type) with hansen's disease of the dimorphous type

Kalyan Baneijee

15- Primary dapsone-resistant leprosy in Republic of Korea

Yoshiyasu Matsuo; Hiroshi Tatsukawa; Do-II Kim; Yong Ma Hah

NEWS AND NOTES

16- News and Notes

BOOK REVIEWS

17- Book Reviews

CURRENT LITERATURE

18- Current Literature

U. S. - JAPAN COOPERATIVE MEDICAL SCIENCE PROGRAM

19- Seventeenth joint leprosy research conference

Robert C. Hastings

REVIEWERS

20- Reviewers

OFFICERS AND COUNCILLORS

21- Officers and councillors

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

22- Acknowledgment

STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION

23- Statement of ownership, management, and circulation

W. Felton Ross