International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 47 N° 3 - Jul/Aug/Sep - 1979

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Immunochemical and structural integrity of surface protein antigens of mycobacteria during separation from armadillo liver tissue

Harlan D. Caldwell; Thomas M. Buchanan

2- Identification of a Mycobacterium leprae specific protein antigen(s) and its possible application for the serodiagnosis of leprosy

Harlan D. Caldwell; Waldemar F. Kirchheimer; Thomas M. Buchanan

3- Detection of mycolic acid in leprous tissue

Sundari Devi; Duncan E. S. Stewart-Tull

4- Partial inhibition of the growth of Mycobacterium lepraemurium in C3H mice immunized with cell wall skeletons

Yoshinori Tanaka

5- Pyridine extractability of acid-fastness from Mycobacterium leprae

Gregory T. McCormick; Rita M. Sanchez

6- Untreated lepromatous leprosy: histopathological findings in cutaneous blood vessels

Gülsen Coruh; A. Cohn McDougall

EDITORIALS

7- Address by the president of the International Leprosy Association, Dr. Jacinto Convit, during the formal inaugural ceremony of the XI International Leprosy Congress, monday, 13 november 1978

8- Statement by professor M. F. Lechat, representative of the International Leprosy Association at the thirty-second World Health Assembly, may 1979 in Geneva, Switzerland

9- Editorial transition completed

R. C Hastings

CORRESPONDENCE

10- Pyridine extraction of M. leprae

Jacinto Convit

11- Reply to Dr. Convit's Letter to the editor

M. Slosarek

12- Considerations on the treatment of leprosy

Meny Bergel

13- Superoxide production in PMNs from leprosy patients

Mauricio Goihman-Yahr

14- Reply to Dr. Goihman-Yahr's Letter to the editor

Oscar Rojas-Espinosa

15- Teaching and training in leprosy

Bernt Johannessen

16- Teaching and training in leprosy

A. Colin McDougall