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Chemical Characterization of Organisms Isolated from Leprosy Patients

^a Department of Microbiology, New York University, School of Medicine and Medical Center, New York, New York 10016; and Department of Microbiology, Georgetown University, Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Washington, D.C. 20007

ABSTRACT

Chemical analyses of the cell walls of organisms isolated in various parts of the world from cases of lepromatous and tuberculoid leprosy make possible their assignment to one of the three genera: Corynebacterium, Mycobacterium, or Propionibacterium. One, bacterium 22M, remains unassigned. The combined chemical and enzymatic properties attributed to leprosy bacilli freshly harvested from lepromata are found collectively, but not individually, in these three genera.

¹ Present address: Faculty of Science, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.

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