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Infectivity of leprosy bacilli from bone marrow and liver of patients with lepromatous leprosy.
Specimens of b one m arrow or liver were coHected from patien ts with lepromatous leprosy at the same time that skin biopsy specimens were removed . The viability of the bacilli was measured by inoculation into mice. There were 2 0 bone ·marrow specimens, and infectivity for mice was present in all of the 1 6 that came from patients whose skin specim ens contained bacill i infective for mice. T...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Leprosy Review
سال: 1967
ISSN: 0305-7518
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19670020