@article{15667,
  keywords = {Animals, Armadillos, Disease Models, Animal, Humans, leprosy, Mycobacterium, Mycobacterium leprae},
  author = {Skinsnes O K and Chang P H and Kuba B A},
  title = {Liberated intracellular pathogen--leprosy model.},
  abstract = {<p>Thirty-three mycobacterial strains, 30 by culture and 3 directly from tissues, isolated from lepromatous leprosy and leprosy infected armadillos, were compared by numerial taxonomy and by antibodies from lepromatous patients. An additional 17 strains of the M-A-I-S complex were similarly compared and all strains were compared by rabbit antibodies induced by tissue bacilli from armadillos from culture HZ-15 and by members of the M-A-I-S complex. The results are discussed in terms of the identification of M. leprae against a background of prior long-held hypotheses as to the characteristics of this bacillus.</p>},
  year = {1984},
  journal = {Acta leprologica},
  volume = {2},
  pages = {195-210},
  month = {1984 Oct-Dec},
  issn = {0001-5938},
  language = {eng},
}