| Autor: |
Fukunishi Y, Meyers WM, Binford CH, Walsh GP, Johnson FB, Gerone PJ, Wolf RH, Gormus BJ, Martin LN |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association [Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis] 1984 Jun; Vol. 52 (2), pp. 203-7. |
| Abstrakt: |
Ultrastructural features of the leproma of a) a naturally infected mangabey monkey, and lepromas and liver of b) a passage mangabey monkey, c) a rhesus monkey, d) an African green monkey, and e) a nine-banded armadillo inoculated with leprosy bacilli isolated from the leproma of a naturally infected mangabey monkey were studied by the freeze-etching technique. The size, shape, and ultrastructural features of leprosy bacilli in the phagolysosomes of macrophages in all of these samples were essentially the same as those in humans, nude mice, and armadillos inoculated with human Mycobacterium leprae. Distinct accumulations of small spherical droplets were observed around leprosy bacilli inside lepra cells of all the samples but were scarce in the specimen from the green monkey. The bacilli in all samples were long and slender, and had band structures on the smooth cell wall surfaces. The bacilli were indistinguishable from M. leprae. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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