Leprosy: Downloadable content

This CD-ROM features epidemiological data on leprosy and includes a comprehensive guide to all aspects of ocular leprosy.

Here you can download text from the tutorials and selected animations from the disc.

Note: This CD-ROM was published in 1998 and some information may be out of date. Please consult more recent authorities, especially for rapidly changing research areas, and for clinical or other guidelines.

Tutorials

Text from the 10 interactive tutorials is available here as text files. Please note, the text from each tutorial has been lifted directly from the CD-ROM and put into a plain text file. Images and other graphics have been omitted for copyright reasons. Interactive features, such as assessments, will not work in the text files.

• Overview [Notepad 69KB]
• Ocular leprosy [Notepad 66KB]
• Diagnosis [Notepad 79KB]
• Prevention and control [Notepad 63KB]
• Epidemiology [Notepad 53KB]
• Histopathology and classification [Notepad 73KB]
• Treatment [Notepad 64KB]
• Clinical features and classification [Notepad 53KB]
• Immunology [Notepad 47KB]
• Physical and social management [Notepad 59KB]

Animations

You will need Adobe Flash Player to view the animations. This is available as a free download from Adobe. Visit the Adobe website for more information on Flash.

• Host response to M. leprae [Flash 52KB]

Using these resources

The text from the Topics in International Health (TIH) tutorials may be freely reproduced, adapted or translated free of charge in any format or medium for not-for-profit, educational use, provided that the Wellcome Trust is attributed as the original author, with the acknowledgement: 'Adapted from Topics in International Health Leprosy CD-ROM, The Wellcome Trust'.

The animations are freely available for non-profit educational use on condition that the copyright holders are acknowledged as shown.

To help you use these materials effectively, we recommend that you view them alongside the corresponding TIH CD. These are available to buy at low cost through Teaching-aids At Low Cost (TALC).

For copyright reasons it has not been possible to provide images from the TIH CDs here. Selected photographic images from the CDs can be sourced via Wellcome Images.

Legal disclaimer: The text from the TIH CD-ROM is provided as an educational and teaching resource and should not be used as a substitute for seeking proper medical advice.No responsibility for any loss, damage, claim or expense incurred by any person acting or refraining from acting as a result of the material from the TIH CD-ROM will be accepted by the Trustee of The Wellcome Trust or by its authorised distributors.