Volume: 52 - Number: 4 - year 1981





EDITORIAL

The use of corticosteroids in leprosy
J. M. H. Pearson
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19810039

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

A brief review of experiences with short-term clinical trials monitored by mouse-foot-pad inoculation
C. C. Shepard
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19810040

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Qualitative studies of serum lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme patterns in leprosy
A. M. Saoji and S. S. Kelkar
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19810041

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Pharmacologically-active mediators of hypersensitivity reactions in the blood of lepromatous patients with erythema nodosum leprosum
K. Saha and S. C. Lahiri
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19810042

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A preliminary investigation of the responsiveness or otherwise of patients and staff of a leprosy hospital to groups of shared or species specific antigens of mycobacteria
J. L. Stanford, P. M. Nye, G. A. W. Rook, N. Samuel and A. Fairbank
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19810043

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Kveim Test in leprosy: a clinical and histopathological evaluation
Surrinder Kaur, B. Kumar, Y. P. Kataria and R. N. Chakravarti
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19810044

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Leprosy in the Cape Verde Islands
A. Loretti and D. Garbellini
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19810045

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SPECIAL ARTICLE

Report of the Third Meeting of the Scientific Working Group on Chemotherapy of Leprosy (THELEP) of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva, 20-22 October 1980
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19810046

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Immunopathology of nerve damage in leprosy
M. Elliott
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19810047

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LEPROSY AND THE COMMUNITY

ILEP: The International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations: 234 Blythe Road, London W14 0HJ • THELEP: report of the eighth meeting of thesteering committee of the scientific working group on the chemotherapy of leprosy (THELEP), Geneva, 23-24 October 1980 • THELEP: report of the ninth meeting of the steering committee of the scientific working group on the chemotherapy of leprosy (THELEP). Geneva 8-10 April 1981 • TDR: special programme for research and training in tropical diseases
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19810048

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FIELD WORKERS' FORUM
All Africa Leprosy & Rehabilitation Training Centre (Alert) International Courses Programme 1982 • Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation, Japan. Reference and health learning materials for leprosy. May, 1981 • Health education in leprosy through the medium of written personalized narratives. Robin Griggs. The University of London

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NEWS AND NOTES
Hind kusht nivaran sangh and AM G international. Souvenir cum proceedings of the 2nd Seminar on Leprosy, September, 1 980, at Hyderabad, India • Leprosy in children by Dr F M Noussitou; now available in arabic & Portuguese • Joint Action • Alert And Ahri ; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; Request For Books And Journals • Medical Teacher . Volume 3, number 3, July 1981 • Africa Health. Volume 3, number 10, July 1981 • Programme National de Lutte Contre la Lepre. Rapport annuel, 1980 • Ahri; The Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Annual report for 1980 • Primary Health Care ; National Council For International Health ; Conference On The Training And Support Of Primary Health Care Workers, Washington Dc, June 1981 • The Heiser Program for Research in Leprosy, 1982

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BOOK REVIEWS

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ABSTRACTS

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