@article{16266,
  keywords = {Animals, Armadillos, Corynebacterium, DNA, Bacterial, Genes, Bacterial, Humans, leprosy, Mycobacterium, Mycobacterium leprae, Nocardia, Spectrophotometry},
  author = {IMAEDA T and Kirchheimer W F and Barksdale L},
  title = {DNA isolated from Mycobacterium leprae: genome size, base ratio, and homology with other related bacteria as determined by optical DNA-DNA reassociation.},
  abstract = {<p>DNA derived from Mycobacterium leprae (grown in armadillos) was isolated, purified, and analyzed spectrophotometrically. The genome size and guanine-plus-cytosine content of M. leprae were 1.3 X 10(9) and 55.8%, respectively. Among selected strains of mycobacterial, nocardial and corynebacterial species, Corynebacterium sp. 2628 LB, isolated from a human leprosy patient, showed the highest DNA homology with M. leprae. Of the DNAs derived from mycobacteria, those of M. tuberculosis and M. scrofulaceum showed a comparatively high reassociation with the DNA of M. leprae.</p>},
  year = {1982},
  journal = {Leprosy in India},
  volume = {54},
  pages = {801-8},
  month = {1982 Oct},
  issn = {0024-1024},
  language = {eng},
}