International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 54 N° 4 - Oct/Nov/Dec - 1986

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Natural killer (NK) cell activity and reversal reaction in leprosy

Paul J. Converse; Gunnar Bjune

2- Intra-adipose administration of monoacetyldapsone to healthy volunteers

Frans A. J. M. Pieters; Jan Zuidema

3- Evaluation of a continual compliance monitoring program for dapsone in an outpatient hansen's disease clinic

James H. Fischer; Dennis P. West; Sophie M. Worobec

4- Objective grading of the loss of pain and touch sensations in leprosy patients

Ganpat Lal Jain; Jagjit Singh Pasricha; Sujoy Kumar Guha

5- ELISA detection of IgM antibodies against phenolic glycolipid-I in the management of leprosy: a comparison between laboratories

Harry C. Meeker; William R. Levis; Eugene Sersen;Georgia Schuller-Levis; Patrick J. Brennan; Thomas M. Buchanan

6- Selection of sites for slit skin smears in untreated and treated leprosy patients

Bhushan Kumar; Surrinder Kaur

7- Separate antigenic determinants on cell wall associated carbohydrate antigens of mycobacterium leprae defined with monoclonal antibodies

Warwick J. Britton; Linus Hellqvist; Antony Basten

8- Evaluation of monitoring antibodies to PGL-I in armadillos experimentally infected with M. leprae

Richard W. Truman; Melvyn J. Morales; Edward J. Shannon; Robert C. Hastings

9- In Vitro and in Vivo activities of ofloxacin against Mycobacterium leprae infection induced in mice

Hajime Saito; Haruaki Tomioka; Kiyofumi Nagashima

10- Antimycobacterial activities of two newer ansamycins, R-76-1 and DL 473

Ji Baohong; Chen Jiakun; Lu Xizhen; Wang Shiyu; Ni Guoxing; Hou Yuhong; Zhou Daohai; Tang Quankui

11- Separation of Mycobacterium leprae from contamination with armadillo-liver-derived "pigment" particles

Geoffrey M. Lloyd; Philip Draper

12- Identification of cat leprosy bacillus grown in mice

Tatsuo Mori; Kenji Kohsaka

13- Classification of Nerves is Modified by the Delayed Recognition of Mycobacterium leprae

Dennis S. Ridley; Marian J. Ridley

14- Studies of cell death (apoptosis) and cell division in leprosy granulomas

Ian A. Cree; Carol A. Gardiner; J. Swanson Beck; Jal Mehta

15- Comparability among histopathologists in thediagnosis and classification of lesions suspected of leprosy in Malawi

Paul E. M. Fine; Charles K. Job; A. Colin McDougall; Wayne M. Meyers; Jorg M. Ponnighaus

REPRINTED ARTICLE

16- Infections caused by opportunistic mycobacteria: a review

J. M. Grange; M. D. Yates

EDITORIAL

17- Host-parasite interrelationship between M. leprae and schwann cells in Vitro

R. Mukherjee; N. H. Antia

OBITUARY

18- Han Huikeshoven, Ph.D. 1937-1986

Jan Zuidema

CORRESPONDENCE

19- Macrophage-induced procoagulation assay for the detection of defective macrophage activation in leprosy patients

Hoang Thuy Long; Pham Manh Hung; E. P. Wright

20- Trial of cimetidine in lepromatous leprosy-a futile attempt

Narender K. Mathur; Ram A. Bumb; Dinesh C. Mathur; Suresh K. Jain

21- Leprosy in children one year of age and under

M. E. Duncan

22- Leprosy and social class in the middle ages

Harry L. Arnold

23- Dr. Ell's Response

Stephen R. Ell

24- Shakespeare's "Hoar Leprosy"

Abrahao Rotberg

25- The "Ex Libris" of Dr. N. A. Torshujev

Laszlo Kato

26- Osler on Leprosy

Anand Date

NEWS AND NOTES

27- News and Notes

BOOK REVIEWS

28- Book Reviews

CURRENT LITERATURE

29- Current Literature

U. S. - JAPAN COOPERATIVE MEDICAL SCIENCE PROGRAM

30- Twenty-first joint leprosyresearch conference

Robert C. Hasting