Researchers identify new leprosy bacterium

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 17:21 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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