International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 54 N° 2 - Apr/May/Jun - 1986

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Episodic edema in type 2 lepra reaction can be caused by transient lymphatic obstruction in the lymph node

John N. A. Stanley; John M. H. Pearson; Dennis B. Ridley

2- Prospective study on the relationship between intensive bactericidal therapy and leprosy reactions

Guido Groenen; Luc Janssens; Tshilumba Kayembe; Erik Nollet; Luk Coussens; Stefaan R. Pattyn

3- Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) serum markers in greek leprosy patients

Dimitri J. Papaioannou; Evangelia P. Kaklamani; Nikos G. Parissis; Ivoni G. Koumantaki; Dimitri Th. Karalis; Dimitri B. Trichopoulos

4- Electrogustometry in hansen's disease(Study of 225 cases)

S. S. Rathi; V. N. Chaturvedi; R. M. Raizada; S. K. T. Jain

5- Antibodies to phenolic glycolipid-1 and to whole Mycobacterium leprae in leprosy patients: evolution during therapy

Marie-Anne Bach; Daniel Wallach; Beatrice Flageul; Agnes Hoffenbach; Francois Cottenot

6- In vitro studies on dermal granulomas of human leprosy: characterization of cells using monoclonal antibodies

R. B. Narayanan; Bhawneshwar K. Girdhar; Ravinder K. Lavania; Utpal Sengupta

7- Superiority of the neonatally thymectomized lewis rat (NTLR) to monitor a clinical trial in lepromatous leprosy of the two regimens of rifampin and dapsone

Robert H. Gelber; Robert C. Humphres; A. Howard Fieldsteel

8- Prophylactic/Therapeutic effects and induction of reversal reactions with thymus transplantation in Mycobacterium leprae-infected nude mice

Kenji Kohsaka; Yasuyo Miyata; Tatsuo Mori; Tonetaro Ito

9- Ganglioside patterns in normal and lepromatous armadillo tissues

Eugene B. Harris; Yu-Teh Li; Su-Chen Liz

10- Mechanism of phagocytosis of mycobacteria by Schwann cells and their comparison with macrophages

Abdul Hamid Band; Shobha D. Chitamber; Alok Bhattacharya; Gursaran P. Talwar

EDITORIALS

11- Leprosy and social class in the middle ages

Stephen R. Ell

OBITUARIES

12- Stanley George Browne,C.M.G., O.B.E., M.D.,F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., D.T.M., F.K.C. 1907-1986

M. F. Lechat; R. H. Thangaraj

13- Tetsu Nakayama, M.D.1925-1985

Masahide Abe

CORRESPONDENCE

14- Lysis of M. leprae by macrophages in vitro

Bernardo Beiguelman

15- A multifactorial culture medium with growth factors from Leprosy-derived mycobacteria proposed in cultivation trials for Mycobacterium leprae

Laszlo Kato