Hiroyuki Watanabe
Hiroyuki Watanabe
Vietnam has achieved WHO's leprosy elimination goal at a national level, but there are a lot ofex-leprosy patients who have severe physical disabilities in the leprosy treatment centers and resettlement villages. The purpose of this study i...
Shuichi Mori,Sumana Barua,Koichi Suzuki et al.
Shuichi Mori et al.
The epidemiological situation of leprosy is reported by the health division of each country to WHO. The reported data is collected by WHO and is immediately run on the Weekly Epidemiological Record. On this latest edition, data from the beg...
Tomomichi Ono
Tomomichi Ono
From among the materials of Masao Ota, in the Library of Tokyo University, a letter (1931) was found from Isamu Miyake, prof. of Dermatology, Kumamoto Medical College. Its contents was some information on Kaisyun Hospital (The Kumamoto Hosp...
Masanori Matsuoka
Masanori Matsuoka
New case detection in Japan has been markedly decreased and same trends have been also shown in Korea. Despite of unfavorable circumstances, research activities are still continuing and we have the accumulation of knowledge on leprosy both ...
[Enhanced activation of T lymphocytes by urease-deficient recombinant bacillus Calmette-Guérin producing heat shock protein 70-major membrane protein-II fusion protein] [0.03%]
产尿酶缺陷型卡介苗载体疫苗活化T淋巴细胞的作用增强效应研究：热休克蛋白70与膜蛋白MMP-II融合抗原疫苗的实验研究
Masahiko Makino,Tetsu Mukai
Masahiko Makino
To activate naïve T cells convincingly using Mycobacterium bovis BCG (BCG), rBCG (BCG-D70M) that was deficient in urease, expressed with gene encoding the fusion of BCG-derived heat shock protein (HSP) 70 and Mycobacterium leprae-derived m...
Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae in Myanmar and possible transmission modes [0.03%]
缅甸麻风分枝杆菌基因分型及可能的传播模式
Khin Saw Aye,Yin Thet Nu Oo,Kyaw Kyaw et al.
Khin Saw Aye et al.
The polymorphism of TTC repeats in Mycobacterium leprae was examined using bacilli from slit skin samples of leprosy patients attending at Central Special Skin Clinic, Yangon General Hospital and nasal swabs of their contacts to elucidate t...
Tomoki Niiyama
Tomoki Niiyama
The objectives of this paper are to grasp the current status of an endemic disease in the Republic of Ghana known as Buruli ulcer(BU) and to clarify relationships between the National Health Insurance Scheme(NHIS) and the health care system...
[Phagocytosis of Mycobacterium leprae down-regulates anti-microbial activity of murine macrophages against Mycobacterium intracellulare] [0.03%]
吞噬麻风分枝杆菌降低小鼠巨噬细胞对抗胞内分枝杆菌的抗菌活性
Yutaka Tatano,Chiaki Sano,Masako Emori et al.
Yutaka Tatano et al.
Patients with highly bacillated lepromatous leprosy (LL) essentially lack T cell-mediated immune responses specific to Mycobacterium leprae (ML) antigens, resulting in severely impaired host resistance to leprosy bacilli. Such type of immun...