Repeated isolation of Dermatophilus-like organism from leprosy material.
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.
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Dept. of Serologist & CE, Govt of India, Calcutta.
D000192:Actinomycetales / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D000818:Animals; D001135:Armadillos; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000382:microbiology*; D051379:Mice; D011817:Rabbits; D012867:Skin / Q000382:microbiology