RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY NEW LEPROSY BACTERIUM
November 24, 2008
November 24, 2008
HOUSTON, Nov. 24 -- The University of Texas System of MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release:
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.
All cases of leprosy, an ancient disease that still maims and kills in the developing world, previously had been thought to be c . . .
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.
All cases of leprosy, an ancient disease that still maims and kills in the developing world, previously had been thought to be c . . .