Volume: 61 - Number: 4 - year 1990



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EDITORIAL

Recent advances in the chemotherapy of leprosy
B. Ji and J. H. Grosset
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900029

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Relationships between PGL-1 antigen in serum, tissue and viability of Mycobacterium leprae as determined by mouse footpad assay in multibacillary patients during short-term clinical trial
Suzanne Chanteau, J-L Cartel, Evelyne Perani, L. N'Deli, J. Roux, J-H Grosset
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900030

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Anti-phenolic glycolipid 1 IgM antibodies in leprosy patients and in their household contacts
G. Sulçebe and M. Nakuçi
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900031

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Positive Mitsuda lepromin reactions in long-term treated lepromatous leprosy
M. F. R. Waters, D. S. Ridley and S. B. Lucas
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900032

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Tuberculoid relapse in lepromatous leprosy
M. F. R. Waters and D. S. Ridley
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900033

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Disabilities in leprosy patients ascertained in a total population survey in Karonga District, Northern Malawi
Ita M. Ponnighaus, G. Boerrigter, P. E. M. Fine, J. M. Ponnighaus and Judith Russell
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900034

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Preliminary observations on myiasis in leprosy patients
Sreevatsa, G. N. Malaviya, Shusain, A. Girdhar, H. R. Bhat and B. K. Girdhar
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900035

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Leprosy in Saudi Arabia, 1986-89
M. A. Ibrahim, M. N. Kordy, A. H. Aiderous and A. Bahnassy
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900036

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SPECIAL ARTICLE

Basic requirements for implementation of multidrug therapy - ILEP Medical Bulletin
P. Feenstra
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19900037

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Multidrug therapy in paucibacillary leprosy
W. H. Jopling

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Are dapsone hypersensitivit y reactions dose related?
R. de Soldenhoff

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Implementation of multidrug therapy for leprosy control programmes
D. Porichha

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Comment: Assessment of histological response to treatment
I. A. Cree

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Experiences with repeated quality controls of skin smears in different routine services in leprosy control programmes
Lysamma Vettom and Susanne Pritze

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Acid-fast and H & E staining’s can be combined better than in the TRIFF method
T. L. Miko and S. B. Luc'as

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Amyloidosis - a possible minor factor contributing to the disappearance of leprosy from Northern Europe
A. H. Patki

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Effect of calendula on trophic ulcers
S. Kartikeyan, R. M. Chaturvedi and S. V. Narkar

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Malignancy in plantar ulcers in leprosy
R. G. Riedel and Sipra Adhikari

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Pachydermoperiostosis and leprosy
W. H. Jopling

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Prevention of peripheral nerve damage in leprosy
J. H. Richardus

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TEACHING MATERIALS AND SERVICES
Neuropathic foot in leprosy, Poona, India-best film award • Eye health at village level • The International Human Suffering Index-poster/brochure • INFOLEP: Leprosy Information Services • African Leprosy Aid • TDR: Tropical diseases on the increase • TDR: Call for Applications for Support of Research Training (1991) • Water, Engineering and Development Centre, Loughhorough, UK • Leprosy poster from ALM International and Wellcome • WHO publications 1986-1990 • Action Health 2000, Cambridge, UK • Tuberculosis skill book, Marie Adelaide Centre, Karachi, Pakistan • T ALMILEP-Catalogue of teaching and learning materials • Colour transparency teaching sets for India • Steam sterilization 'slide set' • Clinical guidelines: diagnostic and treatment manual • Making low-cost spectacles • Leprosy; a guide for professional workers; TLM, South Africa • Chemotherapy of leprosy for control programmes, Video • Leprosy-the misunderstood disease, Film • Transmission of HIV in health-care settings • Health Technology Directions; Immunisation • Community Health Support Services (CHESS) • Appropriate Health Resources and Technologies Action Group (AHRT AG)

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NEWS AND NOTES
A model system for drug supply • Care of patients with chronic renal failure in the Third World-International Workshop • Moniaya Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Services Report, 1989, Nigeria • Drug labelling study • Leprosy in the People's Republic of China • WHO Liaison-Newsletter of the WHO Office of Library and Health Literature Services • Thinking about computers? • Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, sulphonamides and sulphones • Acworth Leprosy Hospital Research Society, 20th Anniversary • The unquiet eye; a diagnostic guide • N D Diwan Memorial Award Fund • Bombay Leprosy Project, Report 1976-89 • Handbook of Leprosy on sale in India • BCG vaccination in leprosy; final results from Papua New Guinea • Leprosy profiles, Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation, Japan • Erratum • Wellesley Bailey Scholarship • Leprosy -Third World edition • Medication monitoring • Social research methods for the study of tropical diseases (leprosy), Workshop Report, Hyderabad, India • Essays on leprosy • Bureau for Overseas Medical Service (BOMS)

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INDEX

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