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.
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association C1 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6305856?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1983 Mar IS - 1 J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis. LA - eng N2 -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.
PY - 1983 SP - 84 EP - 8 T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association TI - Electron microscopic observations of intracytoplasmic inclusions in human and murine leprosy bacilli. UR - http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v51n1a13.pdf VL - 51 SN - 0148-916X ER -