International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 56 N° 2 - Apr/May/Jun - 1988

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Healing time in untreated paucibacillary leprosy: a cross-sectional study

P. Sirumban; Ashok Kumar; P. N. Neelan

2- Tetanus in leprosy patients: report of five cases

Richard M. Hodes; Befekadu Teferedegne

3- Illness beliefs of leprosy patients:use of medical anthropology in clinical practice

Thomas C. Neylan; Kenrad E. Nelson; Victoria Schauf; David M. Scollard

4- Cataract surgery on leprosy patients

Nivrutti Suryawanshi; J. Richard

5- Seroepidemiological studies of leprosy in Northern Malawi based on an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using synthetic glycoconjugate antigen

Paul E. M. Fine; Jorg M. Ponnighaus; Peter Burgess; Jacqueline A. Clarkson; Christopher C. Draper

6- A passive hemagglutination test for leprosy using a synthetic disaccharide antigen

Bencha Petchclai; Kalayanee Khupulsup; Supaporn Hiranras; Surasak Sampatavanich; Prasert Sampoonachot; Amorn Leelarusamee

7- Activity of ofloxacin against Mycobacterium leprae in the mouse

Jacques H. Grosset; Claire-Cecile Guelpa-Lauras; Evelyne G. Perani; Corinne Beoletto

8- Identification of T-cell-activating recombinant antigens shared among three candidate antileprosy vaccines, killed M. leprae, M. bovis BCG, and Mycobacterium w

Abu Salim Mustafa

9- Partial characterization of antigens from M. leprae evoking IgG and IgM antibodies in armadillos

Abdul R. Vadiee; Edward J. Shannon; Thomas P. Gillis; Robert C. Hastings

10- Nerve damage induced by mycobacterial granulomas in guinea pig sciatic nerves

Sally A. Cowley; Colin Butter; Susan Verghese; Jill Curtis; John L. Turk

11- Lepromatous meningoencephalitis in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)

Charles K. Job; Rita M. Sanchez; Robert C. Hastings

12- Reproducibility of histology in leprosy lesions

Ian A. Cree; T. Srinivasan; S. A. R. Krishnan; Carol A. Gardiner; Jal Mehta; Crispin A. H. Fisher; J. Swanson Beck

13- Histologic responses in sixty multibacillary leprosy patients inoculated with autoclaved Mycobacterium leprae and Live BCG

Wayne M. Meyers; A. Colin McDougall; Raul N. Fleury; Rene Neves; Oscar Reyes; Chapman H. Binford

EDITORIAL

14- Leprosy vaccine-a reappraisal

Noshir H. Antia; Tannaz J. Birdi

15- Leprosy: The immunologist and the patient

Robert N. Mshana; Rune Nilsen

OBITUARIES

16- Clovis Bopp 1913-1984

Rubem David Azulay

17- Georg Klingmüller 1919-1987

K. F. Schaller

18- Monina G. Madarang

CORRESPONDENCE

19- Dapsone susceptibility of Mycobacterium leprae isolated before 1977

Ji Baohong; E. C. de la Cruz; L. Levy; S. R. Pattyn; R. J. W. Rees

20- An electronic device for repetitive auditory cues

J. Devasundaram

21- Leprous neuritis, classification of leprosy, and multidrug therapy

Yohannes Negesse