The chemotherapy of leprosy from a microbiological standpoint.
The increased knowledge concerning microbiology and chemotherapy of leprosy is exposed. Great stress is put on the knowledge of chemotherapy of tuberculosis that has accumulated during the last two decades and the guidelines that are equally valid for the chemotherapy of leprosy. The problems of the chemotherapy of the different forms of the disease are exposed and future lines of research indicated.
D000818:Animals; D003622:Dapsone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D051379:Mice; D009166:Mycobacterium leprae / Q000187:drug effects; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000188:drug therapy
D003622:Dapsone