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• n  cause of leprosy

• leprosy bacillus
• Mycobacterium leprae

News & Articles

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• Genome decoding of the medieval leprosy pathogen
  ( Kiel University ) From skeletons and biopsies, an international team of scientists was successful in reconstructing a dozen medieval and modern genomes of the leprosy-causing bacteria Mycobacterium leprae.
  June 14, 2013 - EurekAlert!