@article{11246,
  keywords = {Aged, Epidermis, Humans, leprosy, Male, Microscopy, Electron, Mycobacterium leprae},
  author = {OKADA S and Komura J and NISHIURA M},
  title = {Mycobacterium leprae found in epidermal cells by electron microscopy.},
  abstract = {<p>Leprosy bacilli were found in a keratinocyte of the epidermis by the electron microscopic observation of the ultrathin section of a leproma. The possibility of discharge of leprosy bacilli from the skin should be considered even if the lepromatous patient does not have any ulceration.</p>},
  year = {1978},
  journal = {International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association},
  volume = {46},
  pages = {30-4},
  month = {1978 Jan-Mar},
  issn = {0148-916X},
  language = {eng},
}