Volume: 57 - Number: 2 - year 1986



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EDITORIAL

The medical student and leprosy
A. C. McDougall
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860012

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The rate of relapse in lepromatous leprosy following completion of twenty years of supervised sulphone therapy
M. F. R. Waters, R. J. W. Rees, A. B. G. Laing, Khoo Kah Fah, T. W. Meade, N. Parikshak and W. R. S. North
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860013

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Implementation of multidrug therapy in the ALERT Leprosy Programme in the Shoa Region of Ethiopia. First results with paucibacillary patients
Marijke Becx-Bleumink
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860014

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Monitoring dapsone self-administration in a multidrug therapy programme
Anne-Marie Van Asbeckraat and Marijke Becx-Bleumink
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860015

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A preliminary study on serological activity of a phenolic glycolipid from Mycobacterium leprae in sera from patients with leprosy, tuberculosis and normal controls
Wu Qinxue, Ye Ganyun, Li Xinyu, Liu Qi and Zhou Lilin
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860016

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Serological study of leprosy employing ELISA with arabinogalactan of Mycobacterium smegmatis as antigen
A. Roy
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860017

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Suppressor determinants of mycobacteria and their potential relevance to leprosy
P. M. Nye, J. L. Stanford, G. A. W. Rook, P. Lawton, M. Macgregor, C. Reily, D. Humber, P. Orege, C. R. Revankar, J. Terencio de Las Aguas and P. Torres
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860018

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Ciprofioxacin (4-quinolone) and Mycobacterium leprae
D. K. Banerjee
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860019

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Immunopathogenesis of acute lepromatous uveitis: a case report
P. I. Murray, M. G. Kerr Muir and A. H. S. Rahi
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860020

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SPECIAL ARTICLE

Flow charts for use in leprosy control programmes
S. J. Nickless
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19860021

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OBITUARY
Stanley G Browne

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Six months MDT for paucibacillary leprosy: nerve damage and relapse
H. W. Wheate

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Hypersensitivity reaction to dapsone
W. C. S. Smith

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LEPROSY CONTROL AND FIELD WORK
Plastic containers for clofazimine (Lamprene) • Questions and answers on the implementation of multiple drug therapy for leprosy • Ganta Leprosy Center, Liberia, Africa • Bubble or calendar packs for multiple drug therapy in leprosy • Clofazimine; a tip to prevent capsules sticking together

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TEACHING MATERIALS AND SERVICES
TALMILEP • Principles of health education • Low cost health care and manpower training • The School of Medical Education, University of New South Wales, Australia • A training manual for laboratory procedure in MDT in tuberculosis and leprosy • Videos on sale by TALC, London • Health Education Research; a new journal • Skin smear technicians' course, Karigiri, South India • A diploma in education for primary health care, Manchester, UK • The African Medical and Research Foundation, AMREF • Diagnostic tests for developing country diseases; DIATECH • Posters for health education in developing countries

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NEWS AND NOTES
IV European Leprosy Symposium on Leprosy Research, Santa Margherita, 1986 • XXXIVth Working Session of ILEP in Lisbon, December 1985 • International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations • LEPRA prize essay competition, 1984 • Western Region Leprosy Workers Conference, Goa, India • Leprosy workers meet, Madurai, South India, 1985 • Robert Cochrane Fund for Leprosy • XVII World Congress of Dermatology, Berlin, 1987 • XIII International Leprosy Congress, The Hague, Netherlands, 1988 • CIBA-GEIGY Leprosy Fund: 3 million Swiss francs

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