Abstract
Studying on the granules of acid-fast bacilli observed by using the various staining procedures, the author found the following results:
1) The small bodies or granules observed at the bilateral poles of non-stained acidfast bacilli seem to be differ from those at the central part of them.
2) The granules at the bilateral poles in acid-fast bacterial bodies which were recognized by the use of the Tellurite reaction method, Oxydation method, and such the staining methods as Giemsa's, Ziehl-Neelsen's, and Ziehl-Heidenhain's seem to be all same, and to be same as a part of granules observed in the non-staining or Gram's staining, specimens.
3) The Fontes' granules seem to be differ from the Ziehl's granules, in view of their appearing parts and states in the acid-fast bacterial bodies.
4) The appearing states of the granules which show positive Feulgen's reaction in the bacterial bodies somewhat resemble with those of the Ziehl's and Fontes' granules but with reference to the existing part Feulgen's granules seem to resemble or correspond with the granules exsisting in the central part of the bacterial bodies.
