International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 48 N° 2 - Apr/May/Jun - 1980

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Fluorescent leprosy antibody absorption (FLA-ABS)test for detecting subclinical infection with Mycobacterium leprae

Masahide Abe; Fumishige Minagawa; Yuji Yoshino; Toshiharu Ozawa; Kazuo Saikawa; Toshi Saito

2- Variations in dinitrochlorobenzene responsivity in untreated leprosy: evidence of a beneficial role for anergy

Thomas H. Rea; Norman E. Levan

3- Double blind trials to determine the late reactivity of leprosy patients and unaffected persons to different concentrations of armadillo lepromin in comparison to human lepromin

Luiz Marino Bechelli; Nagib Haddad; Paul Mucio Guimarães Pagnano; Rene Garrido Neves; Enzo Melchior Jr.; Roberto Carminatti Fregnan

4- Histoid leprosy. An ultrastructural observation

Marian J. Ridley; Dennis S. Ridley

5- Striated muscle in four categories of leprosy.I. Histology and histochemistry

Shirin M. Daver; Darab K. Dastur; C. R. Revankar; J. S. Shah

6- Striated muscle in four categories of leprosy.II. Fine structural changes

Darab K. Dastur; Shirin M. Daver

7- Phagocytosis in leprosy. III. Defective adhesive and endocytic abilities of circulating leukocytes in lepromatous leprosy

Oscar Rojas-Espinosa; Jesús Aponte-Vázquez; Ofelia González Cruz; Sergio Estrada-Parra; Yolanda Ortiz

8- Biochemical alteration in cells following phagocytosis of M. leprae-The consequence- a basic concept

P. R. Mahadevan; Noshir H. Antia

9- Role of macrophages in defective cell mediated immunity in lepromatous leprosy. I. Factor(s) from macrophages affecting protein synthesis and lymphocyte transformation

Padmini R. Salgame; Tannaz J. Birdi; P. R. Mahadevan; Noshir H. Antia

10- Role of macrophages in defective cell mediated immunity in lepromatous leprosy. II. Macrophage and lymphocyte interaction

Tannaz J. Birdi; Padmini R. Salgame; P. R. Mahadevan; Noshir H. Antia

11- Organized nerve culture. I. A technique to study the effect of M. leprae Infection

Rama Mukherjee; P. R. Mahadevan; Noshir H. Antia

12- Organized nerve culture. II. DNA synthesis in schwann cells in the presence of M. leprae

Rama Mukherjee; P. R. Mahadevan; Noshir H. Antia

EDITORIAL

13- Immunological aspects of leprosy: ten years' activity at the Armauer Hansen Research Institute and prospects for further work

Morten Harboe

OBITUARY

14- Dr. Jose Gay Prieto 1905-1979

H. Sansarricq; J. Walter

CORRESPONDENCE

15- DDS 100 mg daily preventing permanent nervedamage in reversal reaction

J. Van der Meulen

16- Reply to Dr. Van der Meulen's Letter to the Editor

Ben Naafs

17- The fingers in non-lepromatous leprosy

A. Colin McDougall

18- Strain 0122, a contaminating skin corynebacterium

Peter Piot; Eddy Van Dyck; Stefaan R. Pattyn

19- Thyroxine and Leprosy

W. H. Jopling