@article{15670,
  keywords = {Animals, Armadillos, Fatty Acids, Lipids, Mycobacterium leprae, Mycolic Acids},
  author = {Minnikin D E and Dobson G and Draper P},
  title = {Characterization of Mycobacterium leprae by lipid analysis.},
  abstract = {<p>The lipid composition of the leprosy bacillus, harvested from experimentally infected nine-banded armadillos, strongly supports it status as a distinct species of the genus Mycobacterium. Phthiocerol dimycocerosate waxes and glycosylated phenophthiocerol dimycocerosates are distinct from those characterised from a number of other mycobacteria. The polar lipids of a single isolate lack diacylated forms of phosphatidylinositol di- and pentamannosides, lipids usually found in most mycobacteria. A simple mycolic acid pattern composed of alpha-mycolates and ketomycolates is characteristic of most preparations of M. leprae.</p>},
  year = {1984},
  journal = {Acta leprologica},
  volume = {2},
  pages = {113-20},
  month = {1984 Oct-Dec},
  issn = {0001-5938},
  language = {eng},
}