Volume: 61 - Number: 1 - year 1990



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EDITORIAL

The management of nerve damage in the leprosy control services
Marijke Becx-Bleumink, D. Berhe and W. T. Mannetje
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900001

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Preliminary observations on experimental leprosy in tupaias (Tupaia belangeri yunalis)
Wang Heying, Liu Jihe, Ye Sunzhang, Yu Linchong, Shi Meiqin and Sang Honggui
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900002

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Antibodies to the phenolic glycolipid-1 antigen for epidemiologic investigations of enzootic leprosy in armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus)
R. W. Truman, C. K. Job and R. C. Hastings
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900003

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Mycobacterium leprae reactive T cell clones from lepromatous leprosy patients after prolonged dapsone chemotherapy
H. K. Gill, D. S. Ridley, J. Ganesan, A. S. Mustafa, R. J. W. Rees and T. Godal
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900004

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Leprosy in Portugal 1946-80: epidemiologic patterns observed during declining incidence rates
L. M. Irgens, F. Melo Caeiro and M. F. Lechat
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900005

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The sociocultural dimension in leprosy vaccine trials
S. Kartikeyan, R. M. Chaturvedi and M. G. Deo
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900006

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The role of intrahousehold contact in the transmission of leprosy
K. George, K. R. John, J. P. Muliyil and A. Joseph
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900007

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SPECIAL ARTICLES

A re-appraisal of clinical and bacteriological criteria in the implementation of multiple drug therapy for leprosy control programmes and proposals for their better use
G. D. Georgiev and A. C. McDougall
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900008

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Plastic footwear for leprosy
N. H. Antia
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900009

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

How to detect leprosy in some patients with only localized sensory loss
V. Ramesh, R. S. Misra and Uma Saxena

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Reply - The use of xylene (xylol) in medical laboratories
Marian J. Ridley

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Comment on 'Leprosy in Children'
S. B. Lucas

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TEACHING MATERIALS AND SERVICES
Aids and tuberculosis • Leishmaniasis and HIV infection • Health Images, UK • WHO - assisted tuberculosis training courses • Disability in the developing world-short international course, IDEA • FIELDLINCS Coordination and Technical Support Grants • Takemi Program in International Health ALERT: International Course Programmes for 1990

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NEWS AND NOTES
Retirement of Lepra's Fundraising and Publicity Director, Joy Maitland • Vaccine trials in India • Leprosy vacines • Leprosy in children • Oral steroids--card-carrying patients! • Polystyrene chips act as dummy patients for slit-skin smears • Multi-centre field trial for ofloxacin use in leprosy-call for participants • Sasakawa Research Building, Bangkok, Thailand • Leprosy control in Thailand • McKean Rehabilitation Centre, Thailand • Indo-UK Workshop on Leprosy Research • Symposium of Leprosy Research, October 1 990 • Third Congress on Hansenology of Endemic Countries, Alicante, May 1990 • Impairment of cutaneous sensibility in psoriasis, morphoea and necrobiosis lipoidica • Writing proposals for research grant applications • Poona District Leprosy Committee, Annual report 1 987-88

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