Volume: 67 - Number: 4 - year 1996



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EDITORIALS

Vaccination against leprosy-the view from 1996
P. E. M. Fine and P. G. Smith
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19960025

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The management of erythema nodosum leprosum: current and future options
Diana N. J. Lockwood
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19960026

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Response to treatment by multidrug regimens in the THELEP controlled clinical drug trials
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19960027

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Primary resistance to single and multiple drugs in leprosy-a mouse footpad study
V. P. Shetty, M. W. Uplekar and N. H. Antia
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19960028

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Borderline-tuberculoid leprosy: clinical and immunological heterogeneity
M. I. F. Pimentel, E. P. Sampaio, J. A. C. Nery, M. E. N. Gallo, M. H. F. Saad, A. M. Machado, N. C. Duppre and E. N. Sarno
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19960029

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Nerve function impairment in leprosy at diagnosis and at completion of MDT: a retrospective cohort study of 786 patients in Bangladesh
J. H. Richardus, K. M. Finlay, R. P. Croft and w. C. S. Smith
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19960030

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Vasomotor reflex testing i n leprosy patients, healthy contacts and controls: a cross-sectional study in Western Nepal
E. Wilder-Smith, A. Wilder-Smith, W. H. Van Brakel and M. Egger
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19960031

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The pattern of cataract and the postoperative outcome of cataract extraction in Ethiopian leprosy patients as compared to nonleprosy patients
T. Girma, F. Mengistu and M. Hogeweg
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19960032

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Squamous cell carcinoma of the foot arising in chronic ulcers in leprosy patients
D. Soares and Y. Kimula
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19960033

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Practical problems in the management of leprosy
V. Ramesh and D. Porichha
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19960034

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OBITUARY
J. A. Cap

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Suppression of lymph node lymphoproliferation to viable Mycobacterium /eprae by peripheral blood-derived monocytes
T. J, Birdi, S. Desai and N. H. Antia

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The effectiveness of 'corticosteroids in the treatment of lon g -term nerve function impairment
Richard Croft, Jan Hendrick Richardus, W. Cairns and S. Smith

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Comment: Divorce among Saudi female leprotic patients: an experience at Ibn Sina Hospital
Mohammed Aleem Arif

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BOOK REVIEW

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TEACHING MATERIALS AND SERVICES
ALERT, Courses in 1997 • School of Medical Education, The University of New South Wales, Australia • Tropical Health Technology • Free books from: Italian NGO Atnia de Raoul FoUereau (AIFO) • Leprosy; basic information and management (Ciba-Geigy) now in Chinese • Geographic Information Systems • CMB/LEPRA Ophthalmic Course, Karigiri, India 1996

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NEWS AND NOTES
TDR: Four TDR diseases, including leprosy, can be 'eliminated' • Leprosy: from elimination to eradication? • Yemen makes progress in reducing the transmission of leprosy, WHO • Mexico intensifies its strategy for the elimination of leprosy at sub-national level • TB deaths reach historic levels, WHO • Hepatitis A, B, C, D and E • Chemotherapy of leprosy. Report of a WHO Study Group • Leprosy data on-line through the Internet • IV Congress of the College of Hansenology of the Endemic Countries/IX Congress of the Brazilian Association of Hansenology, 4-8 June 1997, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil • Leprosy Review posters: 2 ENL • Erratum

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INDEX

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