International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volume: 72 - Edition: 1 - Jan/Feb/Mar - 2004
Active Surveillance of Leprosy Contacts in Country with Low Prevalence Rate
Masanori Kai; Yumi Maeda; Shinji Maeda; Yasuo Fukutomi; Kazuo Kobayashi; Yoshiko Kashiwabara; Masahiko Makino; MohammadAliAbbasi; Muhammad Zubair Khan; Pervez Ali Shah

Volume: 68 - Edition: 2 - Apr/May/Jun - 2000
Mycobacterium leprae typing by genomic diversity and global distribution of genotypes
Masanori Matsuoka¹; Shinji Maeda¹; Masanori Kai¹; Noboru Nakata¹; Gue-Tae Chae³; Thomas P. Gillis⁴; Kazuo Kobayashi^1,2; Shinzo Izumi⁵; Yoshiko Kashiwabara¹

Volume: 68 - Edition: 4 - Oct/Nov/Dec - 2000
A Mycobacterium leprae isolate resistant to dapsone, Rifampin, Ofloxacin and Sparfloxacin
Masanori Matsuoka¹; Yoshiko Kashiwabara²; Masako Namisato³

Volume: 65 - Edition: 1 - Jan/Feb/Mar - 1997
Dharmendra antigen but not integral M. leprae is an efficient inducer of immunostimulant cytokine production by human monocytes, and M. leprae lipids inhibit the cytokine production
Chikako Nakamura¹; Yasuo Fukutomi²; Yoshiko Kashiwabara³; Yasukazu Oomoto⁴; Miyae Kojima⁵; Hidetoshi Hayashi⁶; Kikuo Onozaki²

Volume: 71 - Edition: 3 - Jul/Aug/Sep - 2003
A second case of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium leprae isolated from a japanese patient with relapsed lepromatous leprosy
Masanori Matsuoka¹; Yoshiko Kashiwabara²; Zhang Liangfen³; Masamichi Goto⁴; Shin-ichi Kitajima⁵