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THE CHEMOTHERAPY OF RAT LEPROSY
Author(s) -
CROSHAW BETTY
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1954.tb02039.x
Subject(s) - leprosy , mycobacterium leprae , nicotinic agonist , medicine , pharmacology , biology , immunology , receptor
Summary: Various types of experimental infections with Mycobacterium lepraemurium , have been tried to assess their value in selecting drugs for use in human leprosy. Intraperitoneal infection of albino mice was selected as the most promising ‘screening’test. Of the drugs tested using this method only iso ‐nicotinic acid hydrazide had any significant effect.