01276nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653001200055653001100067653002100078653001200099653001200111653002500123653003100148100001300179245010600192856004100298300000900339490000700348520067700355022001401032       1983                            d  c1983 Mar10aAnimals10aHumans10aInclusion Bodies10aleprosy10aMuridae10aMycobacterium leprae10aMycobacterium lepraemurium1 aHirata T00aElectron microscopic observations of intracytoplasmic inclusions in human and murine leprosy bacilli.  uhttp://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v51n1a13.pdf  a84-80 v513 a<p>The intracytoplasmic inclusions of Mycobacterium leprae in human lepromata and M. lepraemurium in murine lepromata were studied in ultrathin serial sections at the electron microscopic level. The inclusions were mostly homogeneous and spherical, and did not exist uniformly throughout the bacillary cells. They did not appear to be delimited by membranous structures and apparently had no internal structure. There seemed to be fundamentally little difference between M. leprae and M. lepraemurium in the fine structure of these inclusions. However, the large diffuse inclusions observed in the cells of M. lepraemurium may be a special feature of murine bacilli.</p>
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