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

AUTOR(ES)

Fisher, Clark A.

RESUMO

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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