International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 48 N° 3 - Jul/Aug/Sep - 1980

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- An assay for antibodies in leprosy sera reacting with ribonucleoprotein (RNP), a mycobacterial ribosomal antigen, using crossed immunoelectrophoresis with intermediate gel

Gerald L. Stoner; Jacob Touw; Ayele Belehu

2- Peripheral blood monocyte function in leprosy patients

Aoi Masuda; Morton A. Scheinberg

3- Detection of Antigen in Nocardia caviae Cross-Reacting with Mycobacterial Antigen No. 21 in M. leprae using a lepromatous leprosy serum pool as antibody reagent'

Bjarne Bjorvatn; Gbran Kronvall

4- Combined rifampin and dapsone chemotherapy of Mycobacterium leprae Infection of the neonatally thymectomized lewis rat

A. Howard Fieldsteel; Louis Levy

5- The growth and drug sensitivity of M. lepraemurium by tissue culture applying monolayer andagar suspension technique

Hiroko Nomaguchi; Mar-Mar-Nyein; Kenji Kohsaka; Kazuo Yoneda; Tatsuo Mori

6- The histopathology of the spleen from a patient with lepromatous leprosy

Thomas H. Rea; Lynn Bevans; Clive R. Taylor

7- The collagen of permanently damaged nerves in human leprosy

Luiz C. U. Junqueira; Gregorio S. Montes; Estevam Almeida Neto; Cecy Barros; Antonio J. Tedesco-Marchese

8- Risks of treating leprosy in a general hospital

Rachel Mathai; P. S. S. S. Rao; C. K. Job

9- Employer acceptance of the hansen's disease patient and other handicapped persons

Thomas F. Frist

EDITORIALS

10- The Transmission of leprosy in man

Christopher L.-H. Huang

11- Hanseniasis: the polar concept as it stands today

F. E. Rabello

OBITUARIES

12- Esmond Ray Long, M.D., Ph.D.1890-1979: Editor, International Journal of Leprosy, 1964-1968

Chapman H. Binford

13- José N. Rodríguez, M.D., M.P.H. 1896-1980

Ricardo S. Guinto

CORRESPONDENCE

14- The teaching of leprosy in medical schools: four and one-half hours in three years

A C. McDougall; A. G. M. Weddell

15- Unclassified mycobacterial strains susceptible to dapsone isolated from the environment in central africa

F. Portaels

16- Effect of purification procedures on the viability of Mycobacterium leprae

K. Prahhakaran; Eugene B. Harris; Waldemar F. Kirchheimer

17- Medical certification of leprosy patients and reservation in service for the physically handicapped, including persons with leprosy

J. M. Mehta

18- Leprosy in archeologically recovered bamboo book in China

O. K. Skinsnes