LEPROSY: THE TASKS FACING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Management of leprosy reactions : facing the realities

to August, 2009. Type 1 reaction was recorded in 32 patients among 127 (BT, BB, BL and pure neuritic) cases (25.19%). Type 2 reaction was recorded in 10 patients among 67 (BL and LL) cases (14.92%). Recurrent type 1 reaction was recorded in 20 patients and late reaction in 8 patients. All 10 patients had recurrent episodes of ENL, 6 beyond 2 years of completion of MDT. Most of these patients we...

Challenges facing the control of leprosy in the Indian context.

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae and mainly affects the skin, peripheral nerves, the eyes and the mucosa of the upper respiratory tract. There has been a decline in the global annual new case detection rate (NCDR) for leprosy since 2001. The global burden of leprosy in the beginning of 2008 was 212,802 cases, with only 6 countries having a prevalence rate (...

Scientific Memoirs, No. 42. Leprosy

special attention to it. As soon as Major Rost laid claim to the cultivation of the bacillus, Surgeon-General Lukis took the opportunity of visiting Burma and seeing the work for himself. He was soon convinced of the importance of the work, and Colonel Bannerman of the Bombay Laboratory was called in to examine and report upon this work. The Rost cultures were examined by him and the work of Wi...

Challenges Facing Educational Research

Determining Research Priorities of the Medical Group: Medical Commission of the Scientific Research Council

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