International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 48 N° 1 - Jan/Feb/Mar - 1980

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Isolation of non-cultivable acid-fast bacilli in sphagnum and moss vegetation by foot pad technique in mice

Jindrich Kazda; Lorentz M. Irgens; Klaus Müller

2- In vitro cultivation and characterization of Mycobacterium lepraemurium

Stefaan R. Pattyn; Françoise Portaels

3- Soluble blue as a counterstain in the Ziehl-Neelsen procedure - a brief communication

Paul R. Wheeler; Philip Draper

4- Mechanism of action of the folate blocker diaminodiphenylsulfone (dapsone, DDS) studied in E. coli cell-free enzyme extracts in comparison to sulfonamides (SA)

J. K. Seydel; M. Richter; E. Wempe

5- Variation of in vitro lymphocyte responses to M. leprae antigen in borderline tuberculoid leprosy patients

Gunnar Bjune

6- Segmental necrotizing granulomatous neuritis of leprosy

Sushil M. Chandi; C. J. G. Chacko; Ernest P. Fritschi; C. K. Job

7- Leprous phlebitis

A. Mukherjee; B. K. Girdhar; K. V. Desikan

8- An information system for leprosy control (OMSLEP Recording and Reporting System)

Michel F. Lechat; Claudine B. Misson; Joachim Walter; Kenneth S. Seal; Hubert Sansarricq

EDITORIALS

9- Vaccination in leprosy - observations and interpretations

Jacinto Convit; Marian Ulrich; Nacarid Aranzazu

10- Mechanism of action of DDS

OBITUARY

11- Dr. Paul Laviron 1905-1979

H. Sansarricq

CORRESPONDENCE

12- At twenty years after Shepard's method of inoculation of M. leprae in the foot pads of mice

Meny Bergel

13- Reply to Dr. Bergel's letter to the editor

Charles C. Shepard

14- HLA antigens and leprosy

Arcangelo Nocera; Sergio Barocci

15- Unusual reaction to intramuscular sulfone in two leprosy patients in Malaysia

A. B. G. Laing

16- Leprosy and art in south China

Olaf K. Skinsnes