Sobre o bacillo acido-resistente dos cadaveres

ABSTRACT

The author did researchs of acid-fast bacillus in 19 human exhumed corpses of with of lepers and founds always great quantity of acid-fast bacterias with a polimorphism entirely identic to the Hansen and Koch's bacteria short bacterias, long, grained, more or less great agglomerated, fuchsinophilic or cyanomingle forms. He does to lesp again the fact of these bacterias to agglomerate themselves in great groups like the constituted by the leprosy's bacteria. The corpses had of 1 to 4 1/2 years of inhumation; the material for examinationwas drawed of the bones and colored by the Ziehl-Neelssen. He does not know to say if the corps leper's bacterias were Hansen's bacillus or purely corpses acid fast, why they confused himselves easily with the bacillus of other corpses. At last he has exhumed 2 dogs corpses whose matarials heve presented the same bacterioscopic squares. His study does porsue for tentatives of culture and inoculations, what, he is effecting. He remember the MANALANG, WLADIMIROFF and WALTER'S theories on the saprophytism of the Mycobacterium leprae, and he askes if this don't should himself develop in that place where products derived of the action of other bacterias on the living and dead tissues existed.