E-ijd.org Website Review

indexed with science citation index (e) , web of science and pubmed  . published since 1955, indian journal of dermatology (ijd®), (issn: print- 0019-5154 published uninterruptedly under the same name since its inception and continues to be one of the pioneer medical journals from india. it is, in fact, one of the oldest peer-reviewed journals dedicated to this particular discipline. the journal publishes information relating to skin, its ailments and different modes of thera*eutics. it also carries articles on leprosy,. in 1962, it became the first indexed dermatology journal from asia. 1965, it became the official organ of the then dermatological society of india. from 1973, it is being published by indian as*ociation of dermatologists, venereologists and leprologists, west bengal state. by launching the web version www.e-ijd.org in november 2000, ijd became the first indian dermatology journal to enter the internet. genomic reduction at ttc repeats in the bacterial genome of treated cases of hansens disease: a possible survival mechanism of abu hena hasanoor reja, abhishek de, pradip kumar patra, supratik biswas, umesh duttagupta, amrita sil, nibir biswas, surajita