Volume: 68 - Number: 3 - year 1997



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Editor's Choice
Diana N. J. Lockwood
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19970025

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EDITORIAL

We need to know what is happening to the incidence of leprosy
W. C. S. Smith
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19970026

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Leprosy by the year 2000 - what is being eliminated?
P. E. M. Fine and D. K. Warndorff
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19970027

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REVIEW ARTICLE

Women and leprosy: a review
Amanda Le Grand
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19970028

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Influence of acetylator phenotype on the haematological and biochemical effects associated with dapsone in leprosy patients
R. H. C. Queiroz, A. M. Souza, E. Melchior, E. G. Gouveia and D. Carvalho
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19970029

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Clinical and histopathological activity in paucibacillary leprosy patients after fixed-duration multidrug therapy
G. J. Ebenezer, S. Suneetha and S. Arunthathi
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19970030

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Study on the detection of leprosy reactions and the effect of prednisone on various nerves, Indonesia
E. H. M. Bernink and J. E. J. Voskens
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19970031

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Does clofazimine have a prophylactic role against neuritis?
S. Arunthathi and Kumar K. Satheesh
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19970032

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Excretion of clofazimine in human milk in leprosy patients
K. Venkatesan, A. Mathur, A. Girdhar and B. K. Girdhar
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19970033

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CASE REPORT

Atypical post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis resembling histoid leprosy
A. Chakrabarti, B. Kumar, A. Das and V. K. Mahajan
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19970034

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Sensory testing of the hands in leprosy
Paul Saunderson, Heather Currie, Shibru Gabre and Peter B. Yass

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Unrecognized ocular morbidity in leprosy
Shirley Chacko, Ebenezer Daniel, Rebecca Alexander, Nisha kurian and P. S . S . Sundar Rao

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TEACHING MATERIALS AND SERVICES
Meeting the information needs of health workers in developing countries: INAS P-Health, UK • WHO Treatment of tuberculosis: guidelines for national programmes, 2nd edition, 1997 • WHO Guidelines on the management of drug-resistant tuberculosis • Leprosy: basic information and management. 4th edition • Managing drug supply. The selection, procurement, distribution, and use ofpharmaceudcals, 2nd edition. Tuberculosis and HIV, a clinical manual • Tuberculosis and children, AHRTAG, 1996 . Molecular immunology of infectious diseases: principles and practice: 8-week course, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 22 October 1997 • ALERT Training Calendar, 1998 • Social Rehabilitation Course, ALERT, December 1997

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NEWS AND NOTES
Progress towards leprosy elimination . Global case-detection trend i n leprosy • Genetic traits in common disease s : is autoimmunity the price paid for eradicating infectious diseases? • WHO Report of the Second Meeting of the Leprosy Elimination Advisory Group, October 1996, New Dehli, India • WHO Meeting on Chemotherapy Research in Leprosy, January 1 997, Madras, India • 4th International Leprosy Meeting, April 1997, Istanbul, Turkey • Compliance becomes concordance • 15th International Leprosy Congress, Beijing, China 7- 1 2 September 1998 ' Basic' elimination of leprosy in China • Leprosy Review poster: Taking slit-skin smears

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