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Azulay, R.D. : The protective role of BCG in murine leprosy . Internat. J. Leprosy 22: 61, 1954.

Brown, J.A.K. : The Uganda leprosy control scheme. East Afr. Med. J. 33: 259, 1956.

Ibid. : The incidence and epidemiology of leprosy in Uganda. Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 49: 241, 1955.

Brown. J.A.K. and Stone, M.M. : B.C.G. vaccination of children against leprosy: first results of a trial in Uganda. Brit. Med. J. 1: 7, 1966.

Ibid. : The depot lepromin test and B.C.G. vaccination. Leprosy Rev . 30: 110, 1959.

Chatterjee, K.R. , Soucou, P. and Sainte-Rose, M.: Prophylactic value of B.C.G. vaccination against leprosy; a preliminary report. Bull. Calcutta Sch. Trop. Med. 6: 164, 1958.

Chaussinand, R. : Tuberculose et lepre, maladies antagoniques . Internat. J. Lep. 16: 431, 1948.

Compos de Souza, N. : B.C.G. in the prophylaxis of leprosy. A preliminary report. Internat. J. Lep. 21: 307, 1953.

Convit, J. : Studies of leprosy in the German ethnic group of Colonia Tovor, Venezuela V. The morbidity rates in B.C.G. vaccinated and unvaccinated groups during five years. Internat. J. Lep. 24: 269, 1956.

Drarmendra and Chatterjee, K.R. : Prognostic value of the lepromin test in contacts of leprosy cases. Leprosy in India 27: 149, 1955. As reprinted in Internat. J. Lep. 24: 315, 1956.

Dubos, R.J. and Schaedler, R.W. : Effect of cellular constituents of mycobacteria on the resistance of mice to heterologous infections, protective effect. J. Exper. Med. 106: 703, 1957.

Fenner, F. : Homologous and heterologous immunity in infections of mice with M. ulcerans and M. balnei. Amer. Rev. Tuberc. and Pulmon. Dis. 57: 76, 1957.

Fernandez, J.M.M. : Estudio comparativo de la reaccion de Mitsuda con las reacciones tuberculinicas. Rev. Argent. Dermatosif. 23: 425, 1939, as quoted in an Editorial, Brit. Med. J., Vaccination against leprosy, 1: 1, 1966.

Ibid. : Influence of the tuberculosis factor on the clinical and immunological evolution of child contacts with leprosy patients. Internat. J. Lep. 23: 243, 1955.

Ibid. : The use of BCG in leprosy. Internat. J. Lep. 30: 332, 1962.

Gray, H.H. and Dreisbach, J.A. : Leprosy among foreign missionaries, Nigeria. Internat. J. Lep. 29: 279, 1961.

Hogerzeil, L.M. : Leprosy in Childhood, page 9. Institute of Child Health, Ibadan, Nigeria. University Press, October, 1964.

JAMA: Prophylactic effect of dapsone after exposure to leprosy . Med. News, No. 12: 34, 1965.

jelliffe, D.B. : Culture, social change and infant feeding . Amer. J. Clin. Nutr. 10: 19, 1962.

Jelliffe, D.B. and Welbourn, H.F. : Pediatrics in Uganda. Clin. Pediat. 4:: 55, 1965.

Leiker, L. : Report on leprosy settlements. Northern Nigeria, June, 1962.

Lowe, J. and McNulty, F. : Tuberculosis and leprosy. Immunological studies. Leprosy Rev . 24: 61, 1953.

Medical Research Council: Brit. Med. J. 1: 413, 1956.

Musoke, L.K. : An analysis of admission to the pediatric division, 1959, in Mulago Hospital. Arch. Dis. Child. 36: 305, 1961.

Rosemberg, J. , Compos de Souza , N. and Aun, J.N. : Da relacao immunobiologica entre tuberculose e lepra. Rev. Bras. Leprol 18: 3, 1950.

Shepard, C.C. : Vaccination against experimental infection with Mycobacterium leprae. Amer. J. Epid. 81: 150, 1965.

Ibid. : Immunity in experimental leprosy. Bacteriol. Proc. page 72, 1962.

Short, G. Murray : A further inquiry into the leprosy-tuberculosis relationship. East Afr. Med. J. 36: 298, 1959.

Wade, H.W. : The beginning of BCG in leprosy work. Internat. J. Lep. 24: 191, 1956.

Welbourn, H.F. : Bottle feeding: a problem of modern civilization . J. Trop. Pediat. 3: 157, 1958.

World Health Organization , Report M.H.O./PA/ 131.64, Geneva, 1964 as quoted in Editorial. Brit. Med. J. 1: 2, 1966.

Ibid. : Tech. Rep. Ser. No. 290, Expert Committee on Tuberculosis. Geneva, 1964.