An organism having actinomycetoid type of colonies has been grown repeatedly in pure culture from leprosy material using a solid medium. The isolates obtained from different biopsies, skin scrapes and mouse foot-pad harvests were found to be similar to each other in the routine taxonomical tests and had many characters common with Dermotophilus congolensis. Similar growth could be obtained from a strain of M. leprae from armadillo and also from a DOPA-positive mycobacterium isolated previously from the blood of a leprosy patient.
BT - Indian journal of leprosy C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7806896?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 1994 Apr-Jun IS - 2 J2 - Indian J Lepr LA - eng N2 -An organism having actinomycetoid type of colonies has been grown repeatedly in pure culture from leprosy material using a solid medium. The isolates obtained from different biopsies, skin scrapes and mouse foot-pad harvests were found to be similar to each other in the routine taxonomical tests and had many characters common with Dermotophilus congolensis. Similar growth could be obtained from a strain of M. leprae from armadillo and also from a DOPA-positive mycobacterium isolated previously from the blood of a leprosy patient.
PY - 1994 SP - 149 EP - 56 T2 - Indian journal of leprosy TI - Repeated isolation of Dermatophilus-like organism from leprosy material. VL - 66 SN - 0254-9395 ER -