International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

ISSN 0148-916X

Vol. 54 N° 1 - Jan/Feb/Mar - 1986

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1- Adenosine triphosphate content of Mycobacterium leprae isolated from armadillotissue by Percoll buoyant density centrifugation

James T. Kvach; Thomas A. Neubert; Juan Carlos Palomino; Henry S. Heine

2- Susceptibility of Strains of Mycobacterium leprae isolated prior to 1977 from patients with previously untreated lepromatous leprosy

Charles C. Shepard; Richard J. W. Rees; Louis Levy; Stefaan R. Pattyn; Ji Baohong; Eduardo C. Dela Cruz

3- Relapse rates in lepromatous leprosy according to treatment regularity

Joel Gerald Almeida; Kumar Jesudasan; Melville Christian; Chinoy John George Chacko

4- Spot test for detection of dapsone in urine: an assessment of its validity and interpretation in monitoring dapsone self-administration

Han Huikeshoven; Monina G. Madarang

5- Sensitization studies with potential leprosy vaccine preparations in Northern Malawi

Jorg M. Ponnighaus; Paul E. M. Fine

6- A follow up of T-cell subsets and of Anti-M. Ieprae antibody titer as measured by the FLA-ABS test in Melanesian leprosy patients under polychemotherapy

Olivier Garraud; Olivier Ribierre; Marie-Anne Bach

7- Immunohistological analysis of skin reaction to my1 derived from Mycobacterium leprae

R. B. Narayanan; G. Ramu; G. N. Malaviya; S. Sinha; U. Sengupta

8- Dependence of proliferative activity of lymphocytes on basal levels of lymphocytic cyclic nucleotides in lepromatous leprosy patients

Eugene Sergeevich Balybin; Valentine Zaharovitch Naumov

9- ICRC vaccine-induced changes in M. leprae-specific cell-mediated immunity in langur(Presbytis entellus) monkeys

Narendra B. Chirmule; Madhav G. Deo; Manohar V. Sirodkar; Ranjana Deshmukh; Narendra G. Chanderkar

10- Immunity to leprosy. III. The in vitro Induction of B lymphocyte proliferation by mycobacteria

Anthony G. Douglas-Jones; Shona Wade; David Kent; Ross Vaughan; James D. Watson

11- Lack of Mycobacterium leprae-specific uptake in Schwann cells

Abdul Hamid Band; Alok Bhattacharya; Gursaran P. Talwar

12- An ultrastructural study of the response of traumatized rabbit tibial nerve to epineurial infection with Mycobacterium leprae

Sushil M. Chandi; Chinoy J. G. Chacko

13- Periodic acid-ethanol gelatin methenamine silver stain for demonstrating M. leprae and myelin in peripheral nerve fibers of leprosy patients

Kiyoshi Harada; Keiji Suzuki

EDITORIALS

14- The 1985 JOURNAL-a continuing perspective

OBITUARIES

15- Robert Greenhill Cochrane, C.M.G., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.Y.M.& H.1899-1985

16- Dr. Herbert H. Gass 1904-1985

Paul W. Brand

CORRESPONDENCE

17- Sulfono-résistance de Mycobacterium leprae-monothérapie par la diaminodiphenylsulfone-intéret desassociations médicamenteuses triples

18- Erythema nodosum leprosum associated with azotemic acute glomerulonephritis and recurrent hematuria

Robert H. Gelber

19- Epithelioma cuniculatum in leprotic foot

W. M. Ramadan; A. El-Aiat; M. H. Hassan

20- More malignant course of leprosy infection in armadillos after inoculation with sonicated suspension of Mycobacterium leprae

J. F. Kazda

21- Sudden Respiratory Collapse in an Armadillo(Dasypus novemcinctus, Linn.).

Ian A. Cree; William Guthrie; A. Colin McDougall; R. J. W. Rees

22- Xenograft studies in leprous neuropathy

Vanaja P. Shetty; Verghese George

23- In vitro assessment of endothelial cell response to Mycobacterium leprae

Nader M. Damavandi; Lata Mehta

24- Clofazimine-resistant M. leprae

Louis Levy