Antigen Analyse of Human Leprosy Bacilli and Murine Leprosy Bacilli for Intradermal Reaction

The respiratory metabolism of murine leprosy bacilli.

DIFFERENTIATION OF LEPROSY AND TUBERCLE BACILLI. 219 On the Differentiation of Leprosy and Tubercle Bacilli

A new method for staining leprosy bacilli.

To a paper on a new method for staining tubercle bacilli with Nachtblau which the writer published in 1941, Reenstierna added a short note (1), together with a plate, on its use in staining leprosy bacilli in nasal smears, films of blood, and sections of lepromata. As was the case with tubercle bacilli, the bacilli of leprosy were found to take a dark-blue color, to appear larger and more disti...

Cytochemical reactions of human leprosy bacilli and mycobacteria: ultrastructural implications.

Leprosy bacilli harvested from freshly biopsied tissue from cases of lepromatous, borderline and histoid leprosy were, in conjunction with Mycobacterium lepraemurium and representative mycobacteria, examined cytochemically with and without their pyridine-extractable acid-fastness. Unlike the mycobacteria, unextracted leprosy bacilli failed to give a positive response to the periodic acid Schiff...

Improved staining of leprosy bacilli in tissues.

A technique which reliably demonstrates Mycobacterium leprae, M. tuberculosis and fungi in tissues is described. It is based on the oxidation of cell wall lipid substances by chromic or periodic acid, and the subsequent release of aldehydes which are then capable of reducing ammoniacal silver salt solutions to metallic silver. The organisms so demonstrated appear uniformly solid. The sensitivit...