Collection Method of Murine Leprosy Bacilli

The respiratory metabolism of murine leprosy 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...

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

Influence of physical and chemical factors on the hydrogen transfer capacity of murine leprosy bacilli.

Another paper (6) summarizes certain implications for leprosy research involved in successful application of metabolic methods to washed suspensions of M. leprae murium and by similar studies with cultivable mycobacteria. It must be emphasized that no attempt has been made previously to utilize metabolic methods in such manner that the data obtained could substitute for cultivation or infection...

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...