Search Results - "Gelber, Robert"
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The chemotherapy of leprosy: an interpretive history
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Methods for the Classification of Leprosy for Treatment Purposes
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (15-04-2007)“…The World Health Organization advocates 2 leprosy treatment regimens on the basis of disease classification (as multibacillary or paucibacillary) by skin…”
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Use of Protein Antigens for Early Serological Diagnosis of Leprosy
Published in Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (01-11-2007)“…Classifications Services CVI Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Reactions Following Completion of 1 and 2 Year Multidrug Therapy (MDT)
Published in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene (01-09-2010)“…We evaluated the incidence, severity, and duration of reactional states in 139 multibacillary (MB) leprosy patients in the first 2 years after the completion…”
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Analysis of Antibody Responses to Mycobacterium leprae Phenolic Glycolipid I, Lipoarabinomannan, and Recombinant Proteins To Define Disease Subtype-Specific Antigenic Profiles in Leprosy
Published in Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (01-02-2011)“…Classifications Services CVI Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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The Diarylquinoline R207910 Is Bactericidal against Mycobacterium leprae in Mice at Low Dose and Administered Intermittently
Published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (01-09-2009)“…Classifications Services AAC Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Does clofazimine prevent Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) in leprosy? A retrospective study, comparing the experience of multibacillary patients receiving either 12 or 24 months WHO-MDT
Published in Leprosy review (01-09-2011)“…To compare the occurrence, duration and severity of ENL in leprosy patients treated with either 12 or 24 months of standard multi-drug therapy (MDT). 296…”
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Powerful Bactericidal Activity of Moxifloxacin in Human Leprosy
Published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (01-09-2008)“…Classifications Services AAC Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Population-Based Molecular Epidemiology of Leprosy in Cebu, Philippines
Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology (01-09-2009)“…To address the persisting problem of leprosy in Cebu, Philippines, we compiled a database of more than 200 patients who attend an established referral skin…”
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The activity of several newer antimicrobials against logarithmically multiplying M. leprae in mice
Published in Leprosy review (01-09-2011)“…Moxifloxacin, rifampicin, rifapentine, linezolid, and PA 824, alone and in combination, have been previously administered, as single doses and five times daily…”
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The frequency of drug resistance mutations in Mycobacterium leprae isolates in untreated and relapsed leprosy patients from Myanmar, Indonesia and the Philippines
Published in Leprosy review (01-12-2007)“…The magnitude of drug resistance in Mycobacterium leprae to dapsone, rifampicin, and ofloxacin was studied in three Southeast Asian countries with a high…”
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A Comparative Clinical Trial in Multibacillary Leprosy with Long-Term Relapse Rates of Four Different Multidrug Regimens
Published in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene (01-08-2009)“…As a participant in a multicenter trial, we evaluated the relapse rate in 189 multibacillary (MB) leprosy patients treated with four different regimens and…”
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Evaluation of a novel vaccine (HVJ–liposome/HSP65 DNA + IL-12 DNA) against tuberculosis using the cynomolgus monkey model of TB
Published in Vaccine (20-04-2007)“…Abstract We have developed a novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccine; a combination of the DNA vaccines expressing mycobacterial heat shock protein 65 (HSP65) and…”
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A novel method for simple detection of mutations conferring drug resistance in Mycobacterium leprae, based on a DNA microarray, and its applicability in developing countries
Published in Journal of medical microbiology (01-10-2008)“…1 Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan 2 Department of Medical Research, Yangon, Myanmar 3 Central Special Skin…”
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ML0405 and ML2331 Are Antigens of Mycobacterium leprae with Potential for Diagnosis of Leprosy
Published in Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (01-03-2006)“…Classifications Services CVI Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Use of Protein Microarrays To Define the Humoral Immune Response in Leprosy Patients and Identification of Disease-State-Specific Antigenic Profiles
Published in Infection and Immunity (01-11-2006)“…Althoughthe global prevalence of leprosy has decreased over the last fewdecades due to an effective multidrug regimen, large numbers of newcases are still…”
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The efficacy of a four-week, ofloxacin-containing regimen compared with standard WHO-MDT in PB leprosy
Published in Leprosy review (01-03-2010)“…To compare the efficacy of a 4-week ofloxacin-containing regimen and the standard WHO-MDT regimen for PB leprosy, in terms of the rate and timing of relapse…”
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A clinical trial of ethionamide and prothionamide for treatment of lepromatous leprosy
Published in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene (01-03-2006)“…In 1982-1984 we conducted a six-month clinical trial in 50 previously untreated lepromatous leprosy patients randomly assigned to directly observed monotherapy…”
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Rapid killing of M. leprae by moxifloxacin in two patients with lepromatous leprosy
Published in Leprosy review (01-06-2009)“…Previously we reported a 2-month clinical trial of moxifloxacin therapy in eight patients with MB leprosy (7 LL and 1 BL), finding both rapid killing of M…”
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The relapse rate in MB leprosy patients treated with 2-years of WHO-MDT is not low
Published in International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases (01-12-2004)“…A group of multibacillary patients is clearly at high risk for relapse following 2-yr WHO-MDT. Relapse is largely confined to BL or LL patients with a high BI…”
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