Insights from the Genome Sequence of <italic toggle="yes">Mycobacterium lepraemurium</italic>: Massive Gene Decay and Reductive Evolution

ABSTRACT Mycobacterium lepraemurium is the causative agent of murine leprosy, a chronic, granulomatous disease similar to human leprosy. Due to the similar clinical manifestations of human and murine leprosy and the difficulty of growing both bacilli axenically, Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepraemur...

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Main Authors: Andrej Benjak, Tanvi P. Honap, Charlotte Avanzi, Enrique Becerril-Villanueva, Iris Estrada-García, Oscar Rojas-Espinosa, Anne C. Stone, Stewart T. Cole
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Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a69604838d0343efa4b9f56cc5903a8c
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