Researchers identify new leprosy bacterium

Monday, November 24, 2008 - 14:07 in Biology & Nature

A new species of bacterium that causes leprosy has been identified through intensive genetic analysis of a pair of lethal infections, a research team reports in the December issue of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

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