International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 47 N° 1 - Jan/Feb/Mar - 1979

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Immune deficit in patients with lepromatons leprosy: its nature and relation to genetic factors. Spectrum and duration of the illness

Kunal Saha; Satish K. Agarwal

2- Reversal reaction: the prevention of permanent nerve damage. Comparison of short and long-term steroid treatment

B. Naafs; J. M. H. Pearson; H. W. Wheate

3- Immunologic skin titration in leprosy patients and contacts

N. J. Cauzzi; C. J. Corona; M. V. Londner; J. C. Morini

4- Respiratory system involvement in leprosy

S. Kaur; S. K. Malik; B. Kumar; M. P. Singh; R. N. Chakravarty

5- The cellular basis for extremity bone loss in leprosy

Sandy C. Marks Jr.

6- Fluorescence microscopy for detection of M. leprae in tissue sections

Harshadrai J. Jariwala; Subhash S. Kelkar

7- Therapeutic effects of adding rimactane^R (rifampicin) 450 milligrams daily or 1200 milligrams once monthly in a single dose to dapsone 50 milligrams daily in patients with lepromatous leprosy

J. Languillon; S. J. Yawalkar; A. C. McDougall

8- Pathologic changes in testis and epididymis of infertile leprotic males

A. A. Ibrahiem; H. A. Awad; B. A. Metawi; T. A. Y. Hamada

9- Treatment defaulters in leprosy: a retrospective study of 42,000 cases

Kumudchandra K. Koticha; P. R. Raveendran Nair

EDITORIALS

10- Leprosy control in Shanghai, China

Yao Teh Chang

11- Dr. Robert C. Hastings, editor IJL

Olaf K. Skinsnes

12- Olaf K. Skinsnes, M.D., Ph.D. - An appreciation

Robert C. Hastings

OBITUARY

13- Nickolay Alexandrovich Torsuev, M.D. 1902-1978

A. Juscenko; V. Shubin; V. Loginov

CORRESPONDENCE

14- Pathology at International Congresses

R. D Azulay; C. K. Job; D. S. Ridley

15- Investigation of chemical compounds with antileprosy activity

Meny Bergel

17- Features of Ridley-Jopling classification and application in the clinical

S. K. Kundu