International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 49 N° 2 - Apr/May/Jun - 1981

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Demonstration of antibodies reacting with different determinants on Mycobacterium leprae antigen 7

Morten Harboe; Otto Closs; Liv Jorun Reitan; Philip Draper

2- The in vivo and in vitro effects of levamisole in patients with lepromatous leprosy'

Ruben Sher; Ahmed A. Wadee; Max Joffe; Susanna H. Kok; Florentine M. J. H. Imkamp; Ian W. Simson

3- Clofazimine (Lamprene, B663) in the treatment of lepromatous leprosy in the United Kingdom. A 12 year review of 31 cases, 1966-1978

Stanley G. Browne; Douglas J. Harman; H. Waudby; A. Colin McDougall

4- Leprosy and female reproductive organs

Subhash Chander Sharma; Bhushan Kumar; Kamla Dhall; Surrinder Kaur; Sarla Malhotra; Meera Aikat

5- Antimycobacterial activity of 2-acetylpyridine thiosemicarbazones in relation totheir antileprosy activity

Norman E. Morrison; Frank M. Collins

6- The uptake of H-thymidine in Mycobacterium leprae inoculated mouse macrophage cultures as a rapid indicator of bacillary viability. factors influencing the specificity of the in vitro assay

M. Sathish; Indira Nath

7- Parameters influencing the in vitro growth of Mycobacterium lepraemurium

Françoise Portaels; Stefaan R. Pattyn

8- Detection of mycobacterial lipids in skin biopsies from leprosy patients

Douglas B. Young

9- Bacterial persistence in leprosy

Kurt Toman

EDITORIALS

10- A general condition of the work on the prevention and treatment of leprosy in China

George Hatem; Ye Gan-yun

11- The immunopathology of nerve damage in leprosy

Ian-Smith

12- Patient compliance with dapsone administration in leprosy

Han Huikeshoven

CORRESPONDENCE

13- Antileprosy and biological antioxidant activity of serotonin

Meny Bergel

NEWS AND NOTES

14- Mr. Robert Watelet Receives the 1980 Damien-Dutton Award

BOOK REVIEWS

15- Book Reviews

G. Gordon