Volume: 62 - Number: 3 - year 1991



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EDITORIAL

Surgical rehabilitation
R. Bourrel
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910029

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Evaluation of gelatin particle agglutination assay for the detection of anti-PGLI antibodies. Comparison with ELISA method and applicability on a large scale study using blood collected on filter paper
Suzanne Chanteau, J. L. Cartel, J. P. Boutin and J. Roux
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910030

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Soluble interleukin-2 receptors: levels in leprosy, and during and after Type 1 (lepra) and Type 2 (ENL) reactions
V. N. Sehgal, S. N. Bharttacharya, Y, Shah, V. K. Sharma and C. K. Gupta
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910031

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Does Convit vaccine (BCG + Mycobacterium leprae) afford protection against biochemical changes in renal brush border membrane in experimental leprosy?
M. Kohli, N. K. Ganguly, S. Kaur, K. S. Chugh, V. K. Sharma and S. R. Bhushnurmath
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910032

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The susceptibility testing of 13 strains of Mycobacterium leprae to rifampicin and the determination of minimal etrective dosage
Wang Heying, Li Wenzhong, Ye Ganyun, Yu Linchong and Shi Meiqin
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910033

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The activity of rifabutin against Mycobacterium leprae
L. J. Yoder, R. R. Jacobson and R. C. Hastings
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910034

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Risk of relapse among non-lepromatous patients released from treatment after dapsone monotherapy
T. D. Pandian, Jayaprakas Muliyil and C. Vellut
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910035

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Immunological upgrading with combined immunotherapy and chemotherapy in a lepromatous leprosy patient: a case report
S. A. Zaheer, N. R. Suresh, H. K. Kar, A. K. Sharma, A. Mukherjee. R Mukherjee and G. P. Talwar
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910036

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Is bacteriological examination by skin smear necessary in all paucibacillary leprosy patients in mass control programmes?
P. S. Rao, V. Ekambaram, R. N. Reddy, P. Krishnamoorthy Kumar and A. Dutta
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910037

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Fluorescein diacetate and ethidium bromide staining to determine the viability of Mycobacterium smegmatis an Escherichia coli
V. Jayapal, K. M. Shamila, G. Selvibai, S. P. Thyagarajan, N. Shanmugasundaram and S. Subramanian
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910038

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SPECIAL ARTICLES

ALERT-India 1981-89: nine years’ experience of Ieprosy control in the slums of Bombay
A. A. Samy, J. Mancheril, K. P. Manek and A. C. McDougall
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910039

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A multimedia approach to health education
R. C. Friedericks
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19910040

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OBITUARIES

Dr Dharmendra

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Thachakkadu Natesa Jagadisan

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Henry E. Hobbs

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Experience of multidrug therapy blister- calendar packs in an urban leprosy control programme in Bombay
C. R. Revankar, C. B. Dhamale and R. Ganapti

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Status of the multibacillary leprosy patients treated with combined regimens of 1 year duration, after a mean follow-up of more than 5 years
S. R. Pattyn, J. Bourland, J. Deverchin. P. Ghys, S. Grillone, G. Groenen, L. Janssens and P. Kuykens

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Comment: Leprosy deformities: experience in Molai, Nigeria
Margreet Hogeweg

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Comment: a look at world leprosy
V. K. Edward

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Reply: recommending drug regimens to smear negative MB cases after prolonged dapsone monotherapy
S. K. Noordeen

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Comment: clofazimine-induced lymphoedema
T. Oommen, D. Wilfred and M. V. Natu

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BOOK REVIEWS

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TEACHING MATERIALS AND SERVICES
Hesperian Foundation; a book on disabled village children • Leprosy - teaching and learning materials in French • Leprosy - basic information and management in Bengali • Facts for Life; UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO • School of Medical Education, New South Wales, Australia • CONTACT • Appropriate Health Resources and Technologies Action Group: AHRTAG • TALC: Teaching Aids at Low • Cost Programme for International Training in Health (INTRAH)

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NEWS AND NOTES
TDR call for applications for support of research training • African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) • Action in International Medicine (AIM), UK • Implants of levonorgestrel for contraception • UNICEF - Facts and figures, 1990 • Leprosy control: role of medical institutions - seminar held in Bombay, India • Blister-calendar packs for MDT in the Philippines • AntiIeishmanial effects of clofazimine and other antimycobacterial agents • Reversal reactions and relapse after multidrug therapy, Hyderabad, India, 2-day workshop, December 1991

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