Skinsnes O K, Chang P H, Kuba B A
Acta Leprol. 1984 Oct-Dec;2(2-4):195-210.
Thirty-three mycobacterial strains, 30 by culture and 3 directly from tissues, isolated from lepromatous leprosy and leprosy infected armadillos, were compared by numerial taxonomy and by antibodies from lepromatous patients. An additional 17 strains of the M-A-I-S complex were similarly compared and all strains were compared by rabbit antibodies induced by tissue bacilli from armadillos from culture HZ-15 and by members of the M-A-I-S complex. The results are discussed in terms of the identification of M. leprae against a background of prior long-held hypotheses as to the characteristics of this bacillus.
从瘤型麻风患者和感染麻风的犰狳中分离出33株分枝杆菌菌株，其中30株通过培养获得，3株直接从组织中分离得到，采用数值分类法并利用瘤型麻风患者的抗体进行比较。另外17株M-A-I-S复合体菌株也进行了类似比较，所有菌株还通过由来自HZ-15培养物的犰狳组织杆菌诱导产生的兔抗体以及M-A-I-S复合体成员进行比较。根据长期以来关于麻风杆菌特征的假设背景，对麻风杆菌的鉴定结果进行了讨论。
