Volume: 57 - Number: 1 - year 1986



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EDITORIAL

The first China International Leprosy Symposium: basic eradication by the year 2000
A. C. McDougall
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860001

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Secondary dapsone-resistant leprosy in Brazil: a preliminary report
Maria Helena dos Santos Damasco, S. Talhari, S. M. Viana, M. Signorelli, M. H. F. Saad and L. M. C. Andrade
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860002

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Ethionamide, prothionamide and thiacetazone self-administration. Studies of patient compliance using isoniazid-marked formulations
J. N. A. Stanley, J. M. H. Pearson and G. A. Ellard
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860003

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The effect of dapsone in high and normal dosage on the clinical and cell-mediated immune status of patients with borderline (BT-BL) leprosy
S. S. Lakshmana Rao, J. N. A. Stanley, K. U. Kiran, T. Dharma Rao, P. R. Rao and J. M. H. Pearson
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860004

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The number of Mycobacterium leprae in the pretreatment biopsy-specimen does not determine the rate of response of patients with lepromatous leprosy to chemotherapy with acedapsone
L. Levy and C. C. Shepard
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860005

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A study of drug interactions in leprosy - 1. Effect of simultaneous administration of prothionamide on metabolic disposition of rifampicin and dapsone
A. Mathur, K. Venkatesan, B. K. Girdhar, V. P. Bharadwaj, A. Girdhar and A. K. Bagga
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860006

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A method to determine pressure distribution of the hand
R. Prem Kumar and J. W. Brandsma
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860007

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Adhesive zinc tape treatment of uncomplicated ulcers amongst leprosy outpatients
A. Kumar and M. Lakshmanan
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860008

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Treatment of plantar ulcers in leprosy patients in the community with adhesive zinc tape
R. T. Walton, E. P. Fritschi and V. A. Umapathy
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860009

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Dapsone syndrome occurring in two brothers
K. Jamrozik
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860010

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Fatal dapsone agranulocytosis in a Melanesian
P. Barss
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860011

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OBITUARY
Robert G. Cochrane

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Oily injections of dapsone; an acceptable form of treatment?
T itia Warndorff Van Diepen

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Response to lepromin unaltered by application of zinc to the skin in lepromatous leprosy patients
V. R. Subramanyam

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Transmission of leprosy by animal bite. Reply to: 'Tuberculoid leprosy at the site of a dog bite'
C. M. Gupta and R. D. Bhata

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Leprosy following mechanical trauma. Reply to: 'Tuberculoid leprosy at the site of a dog bite'
V. N. Sehgal

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Supplies of thalidomide for use in leprosy
A. Loretti and E. Barchi

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Reply to: 'Quality control of skin smear services in leprosy programmes: preliminary experience with inter-observer comparison in routine services.
A. B. Prabhavalkar

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Failure of specific antigen presentation in lepromatous leprosy
N. K. Mathur, Suresh Jain, Dinesh Mathur and H. N. Mangal

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LEPROSY CONTROL AND FIELD WORK
A practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of leprosy in the basic health unit, Third edition • PILLSAFE: plastic containers for daily administration of tablets or capsules • Multidrug therapy; a working guide The Leprosy Mission, Southern Asia, 1983 • Outline body diagrams for the charting of lesions and deformities • 'Mini-leprosy Guide, 1986, National Leprosy Organisation, India' • Leprosy smears; bacteriological index (BI) chart

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TEACHING MATERIALS AND SERVICES
The Wellcome Tropical Institute; inventory of resource materials to support overseas education in tropical medicine • Questions and answers on the implementation of multiple drug therapy for leprosy, OXFAM • Teaching materials and services. Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation • TALC; new colour slide-text: Leprosy lesions in skins of different colours • Courses in tropical medicine at the University of Barcelona, Spain • Orientation in leprosy for doctors, HKNS, India • Glaxomed slide lectures; Bombay, India • Skin biopsy in leprosy, Second edition • ILEP catalogue on training, 1986 • Flannelgraphs; TALC, London

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NEWS AND NOTES
More pages for Leprosy Review • Thesis on the Marchoux Institute from Dr Guy-Michel Nebout, France • Newsletter; International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness • HEARU; Handicapped Education and Aid Research Unit, London • Graves Medical Audiovisual Library; Newsletter Autumn 1985 • Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation Centre for Social Science Research and Development in Leprosy • Poland honours Dr Wanda Blenska • Distinguished Service Cross with Star for Dr Ruth Pfau • Technical guide for smear examination in leprosy, Spanish edition • An ethical code for animal experimentation • PATH: Program for appropriate technology for health • Notice on leprosy; Tata Steel and UNICEF in India • Revista de Leprologia; Fontilles, Spain • Leprosy eradication in Paraguay in the near future • IV European Leprosy Symposium on Leprosy Research, October 1986

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