Abstract
First we cultivated Mycobacterium leprae murium on Nakamura Endo Mucin culture medium and a similar culture medium. Animals were inoculated with this mycobacterium with the following result.
In a Mucin added liquid culture medium, we could percive the existence of the mycobacterium for a considerably long period. But we could not define exactly if the organisms had been produced and cultivated there or they gathered together where they had been throne in. When a great number of Mycobacterium leprae murium were inoculated into whit, rats, some of them produced lepromas while others didnot.We have come to a conclusion that Myc-obacterium leprae murium can exist in a Mucin culture medium longer than is usually supposed.
