Acknowledgements

We wish to acknowledge the help and support of the following persons and institutions who have contributed to the historic and current development of our research.

EUROPE

Sanatorio Fontilles, Laguart, Alicante, Spain. (Pedro Torres)

Institut Pasteur, Lille, France. (GM Bahr, Y Mouton)

Rotterdam Dermatology Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ben Naafs)

Merchints, Raalte, Netherlands. (Dick Exel, Cas ter Haar)

Central Veterinary Institute, Heidelberg, Germany. (R Muser)

University of Ancona, Italy.

Public Health Service, Mycobacterium Unit, Cardiff, Wales. (PA Jenkins)

The Brompton Hospital, London, UK. (JM Grange)

The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey, UK. (M.O’Brien)

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, UK. (P Arkwright)

University College London,

AFRICA

Mulago Medical School, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda.(David Revill, Wilson Carswell, John Clancey, David Barker) (John Johnson)

Tuberculosis Hospital, Kano, Nigeria. (Phillip Onyebujoh)

National Institute for Nutrition, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Eshetu Lemma)

MRC Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, Gambia. (Tomani Corrah)

ASIA

Bombay Leprosy Project, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. (R.Ganapati)

Indian Cancer Research Centre, Mumbai, India. (CV Bapat)

Holy Family Hansenorium, Fatimanagar South India. (G.Ramu)

Anandaban Leprosy Centre, Katmandu, Nepal. (S Samuels)

The Chest Hospital, Kuwait. (M Shabaan, GM Bahr)

Baba Baghi Leprosy Sanatorium, Tabriz, Iran. (F Modabber, A Velayati, Y Dowlati, K Ghazi-Saidi)

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. (K Ghazi-Saidi)

The Tuberculosis Hospital, Tehran, Iran. (A Velayati, M Mazjedi)

National Institute for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Hanoi, Vietnam. (Ho Minh Ly, Dang Duc Trach)

Tuberculosis Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

AMERICA

Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. (J Johnson)

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Centre, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. (F von Reyn, R Arbeiter)

University of Mexico, Mexico. (R Hernandez Pando)

ADP, Managua, Nicaragua. (N Caballero)

Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. (Facultad de Ciencias Medicas: Oscar Bottasso, D Dlugovitzky, M Vinuesa, MC Tarres, J-C Picena, S Revelli, School of Veterinary Sciences, Casilda: )

Universidad de La Plata, Argentina. (G Docena)