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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEPROSYand Other Mycobacterial Diseases

CONTENTSVolume 62, Number 4, December 1994

Original Articles^ PageLevee, Geraldine, Liu, Jing, Gicquel, Brigitte, Chanteau, Suzanne, and Schurr, Erwin. Genetic

Control of Susceptibility to Leprosy in French Polynesia; No Evidence for Linkage with Markers onTelomeric Human Chromosome 2 499

Jamil, Sarwat, Wilson, Stuart M., Hacket, Maggie, Hussain, Rabla, and Stoker, Nell G. A Col-orimetric PCP Method for the Detection of M. leprae in Skin Biopsies from Leprosy Patients ^512

Kawuma, Herman Joseph S., Bwire, Robert, and Adatu-Engwau, F. Leprosy and Infection withthe Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Uganda; a Case-Control Study ^521

Sekar, Balaraman, Jayasheela, Manur, Chattopadhya, Debasish, Anandan, Duraisamy,Rathinavel, Lakshmanan, Vasanthi, Bavanantham, Subramanian, Murugan, and Sivarama-krishna Rao, Potluri. Prevalence of HIV Infection and High-Risk Characteristics Among LeprosyPatients of South India; a Case-Control Study 527

Thuc, Nguyen Van, Abel, Laurent, Lap, Vu Dinh, Oberti, Jean, and Lagrange, Philippe H. Pro-tective Effect of BCG Against Leprosy and Its Subtypes: a Case-Control Study in SouthernVietnam 532

Shah, Damayanti H., Vartak, Rekha R., Naik, Shared S., Dandekar, Shubheda R., and Ganapati,R. Epidemiological Studies in Children of a Low-Endemic Region, a High-Endemic Region, andDwellers of a Leprosy Colony: Evaluation of Anti-ND-BSA Antibodies and Lepromin Response 539

Kyriakis, Kyriakos P., Kontochristopoulos, George J., and Panteleos, Demetrius N. CurrentProfile of Active Leprosy in Greece; a Five-Year Retrospective Study (1988-1992) ^547 -

Rada, Elsa, Ulrich, Marian, Aranzazu, Nacarid, Santeella, Carlos, Galllnoto, Maria, Centeno,Marta, Rodriguez, Vestalia, and Convit, Jacinto. A Longitudinal Study of Immunologic Reac-tivity in Leprosy Patients Treated with Immunotherapy 552

Scollard, David M., Smith, Trevor, Bhoopat, Lertlakana, Theetranont, Choti, Rangdaeng, Sam-reung, and Morens, David M. Epidemiologic Characteristics of Leprosy Reactions ^559

Gelber, Robert H., Murray, Lydia P., Siu, Patricia, Tsang, Mabel, and Rea, Thomas H. Efficacy ofMinocycline in Single Dose and at 100 mg Twice Daily for Lepromatous Leprosy ^568

Lee, Seok Jong, Kim, Do Won, Jun, Jae Bok, Chung, Sang Lip, and Kim, Jung Chul. Lipid Com-position of the Stratum Corneum of the Sole in Patients with Leprosy ^574

Mautalen, Carlos A., Vaquero, Noemi L., Zeni, Susana N., Mendez, Maria A., Gonzalez, Diana C ,Bagur, Alicia C., Casco, Cristina A., and Ladizesky, Marta G. Calcium Metabolism and Its Reg-ulating Hormones in Patients with Leprosy 580-

Gupta, Bel Kishan and Kocher, Dhanpat Kumar. Study of Nerve Conduction Velocity, So-matosensory-Evoked Potential and Late Responses (H-Reflex and F-Wave) of Posterior TibialNerve in Leprosy 586

EditorialsState-of-the-Art Lectures

The Microbiology of Mycobacterium leprae, Part II. Reflections on Major Developments andThose Responsible for Them (Patrick J. Brennan) ^594

Sustainability of Leprosy Control Services in Low-Endemic Situations (Pieter Feenstra) ^599

CorrespondenceMille In Leprosy (Acharya Sandhya, C. Balanchandran, C. R. Srinivas, Shruthakirthl D. Shenoi,

L. Sabitha, and P. Satish) ^609

HIV-1 Infection and Leprosy (Bobby J. Gormus) ^610

Dr. Põnnighaus Replies (Jorg M. Pbnninghaus) ^611

Dr. Borgdorff Replies (Martien W. Borgdorff) ^612

Experimental Transmission of Human Leprosy Bacilli in Foot Pads of Severe Combined Im-munodeficient Mice (Muhammad Ishaque and Veronika Sticht-Groh) ^613

Accurate Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Meningitis Using Polymerase Chain Reaction (Amol G ^Amin, Ashish K. Garg, Kamlesh Chopra, and Pramod Khandekar)^ -^614

Mycobacterium lepraemurium Itself Does Not Interfere with the in Vitro LymphoproliferationInduced by Concanavalin A (Oscar Rojas-Espinosa, Ivonne Bonilla-Velázquez, and PatriciaArce-Paredes) 616

Electron Microscopic Observations of Small Unmyelinated Nerve Tissue Proper in a DermalLesion of a Relapsed Lepromatous Patient (Tsunehiko Hirata and Nobuo Harada) ^619

Relapse After Long-Term Follow Up of Multibacillary Patients Treated by WHO MultidrugRegimen (Pierre Jamet and Baohong Ji) ^622

Book Reviews ^623

News and Notes ^626

Current Literature ^634

U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program, Twenty-Ninth Joint Leprosy Research Con-ference, Kyoto, Japan, 1994 ^678

Reviewers ^690

Statement of Financial Condition ^691

Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation ^694Special Grantors and Sustaining Members ^695

Index to Volume 62 ^697