@article{3393,
  keywords = {Animals, Armadillos, Culture Media, Gamma Rays, leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, Ultraviolet Rays},
  author = {Dastidar S G and Chakrabarty A N},
  title = {Viability of acid-fast bacilli from gamma-& UV-irradiated lepromatous armadillo tissues infected with Mycobacterium leprae.},
  abstract = {<p>Gamma-irradiated splenic homogenates of armadillos infected with M. leprae proved sterile by conventional tests and media. However, on media for chemoautotrophy, these could repeatedly grow as a single type of acid-fast nocardioform bacterium like the unirradiated specimens, although with a much reduced count. In the slide culture, transition from the initial AFB/coccoid bodies, to sporulating mycelia and granules in the final stage, could be observed sequentially. The gamma-irradiated tissue specimens failed to yield any other mycobacterium/corynebacterium tested according to standard protocols.</p>},
  year = {1992},
  journal = {The Indian journal of medical research},
  volume = {95},
  pages = {263-9},
  month = {1992 Nov},
  issn = {0971-5916},
  language = {eng},
}