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. 1971 May;106(2):707–708. doi: 10.1128/jb.106.2.707-708.1971

Elimination of the Acid Fastness but not the Gram Positivity of Leprosy Bacilli After Extraction with Pyridine

Clark A Fisher 1, Lane Barksdale 1
PMCID: PMC285154  PMID: 4102336

Abstract

Bacilli from a number of tissues excised from cases of lepromatous and borderline leprosy, unlike mycobacteria, were found to lose their acid-fastness after treatment with pyridine.

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