01572nas a2200301   4500000000100000008004100001260001700042653001200059653001500071653002300086653001400109653001200123653001100135653001000146653001800156653002500174653001800199653001400217100001500231700001300246700001800259700001700277245012000294300001100414490000900425520082200434022001401256       1984                            d  c1984 May-Jun10aAnimals10aArmadillos10aChemical Phenomena10aChemistry10aleprosy10aLipids10aLiver10aMycobacterium10aMycobacterium leprae10aMycolic Acids10aXenarthra1 aPortaels F1 aDaffé M1 aLanéelle M A1 aAsselineau C00a[Lipid composition of cultivable Mycobacteria isolated from livers of armadillos infected by Mycobacterium leprae].  a457-650 v135A3 a<p>Four bacterial strains isolated from two livers of armadillos experimentally infected with Mycobacterium leprae were studied. Lipids obtained after saponification and methylation and complex lipids obtained by solvent extraction were examined. The presence of mycolates showed that the four strains belonged to the genus Mycobacterium, but the mycolate patterns, identical for the four strains, were different from those of all strains studied so far. Three of these strains contained phthioceranic acids, which were not found in the fourth one. Only the last strain contained mycosides of the C type, while the three others contained a new type of glycolipid. Their content in mycolates and in glycolipids demonstrated a clear-cut difference between these strains, on the one hand, and M. leprae on the other.</p>  a0300-5410