International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 45 N° 2 - Apr/May/Jun - 1977

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- A Study of alleged leprosy bacillus strain HI-75

J. L. Stanford; R. G. Bird; J. W. Carswell; P. Draper; C. Lowe; A. C. McDougall; G. Mclntyre; S. R. Pattyn; R. J. W. Rees

2- In vitro cultivation of mycobacteria from human lepromas and from an armadillo infected with Mycobacterium leprae

Laszlo Kato; Muhammad Ishaque

3- Cytochrome-linked respiration in host grown M. leprae isolated from an armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus, L.)

M. Ishaque; L. Kato; O. K. Skinsnes

4- Oxidation of substrates by host grown Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepraemurium and by in vitro grown mycobacteria cultured from human, armadillo and murine lepromas

Muhammed Ishaque; Laszlo Kato

5- Fatty acid synthesizing enzyme activity of cultured Mycobacterium lepraemurium

Takashi Kusaka

6- A scotochromogenic slow-growing mycobacterium probably the etiologic agent of rat leprosy

Laszlo Kato; Muhammed Ishaque

7- Secondary amyloidosis and the serum amyloid precursor in leprosy: geographical variation and association with leukocytosis

K.P.W.J. McAdam; R. F. Anders; G. Aiken; F. F. Takitaki

8- Renal amyloidosis in leprosy: functional and histopathologic studies

A. G. Atta; R. N. Fleury; R.L. Maringoni; A. S. Trindade Jr.; C. B. F. Rufino; B. S. Filho

9- A histopathologic study of renal biopsies in fifty cases of leprosy

J. C. Gupta; R. Diwakar; S. Singh; D. K. Gupta; P. K. Panda

10- Acute renal failure in leprosy

P. C. Singhal; K. S. Chugh; S. Kaur; A. K. Malik

EDITORIAL

11- The Janus-face of Mycobacterium leprae: characteristics of in vitro grown M. leprae are not predictable

Laszlo Kato

CORRESPONDENCE

12- Comments on Dr. Kato's editorial

Pierre Beaulnes; Michel Bourque; John H. Hanks; Koomi Kanai; Michio Tsukamura

13- DOPA oxidation and M. leprae

K. Prabhakaran

14- M. leprae does not oxidize DOPA

Laszlo Kato; Muhammad Ishaque

15- Comments from a contributing Investigator

Olaf K. Skinsnes

16- Binding of C-Labeled DOPA by M. leprae in vitro

K. Prabhakaran

17- Comments on photosensitivity in leprosy

Paul W. Brand

18- Comparative DNA binding studies with clofazimine and B1912

N. E. Morrison; G. M. Marley

19- Comments on immuno-epidemiology of leprosy

M. F. Lechat