Romania confirms first leprosy cases in over 40 years, with two women diagnosed in Cluj-Napoca and two more under investigation. Authorities suspend spa operations and launch nationwide ...
Leprosy. We’ve all heard of it, but do you really know what causes it? What does the word make you think of? A disease that people got a long, long time ago? A super-contagious condition that causes ...
The findings that were published in the Tamil Nadu Journal of Public Health and Medical Research showed that over a span of ...
Leprosy has existed since at least Biblical times, yet scientists still don't know exactly how Mycobacterium leprae causes the disease's symptoms. Though antibiotics can treat the illness, researchers ...
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. To investigate this connection, we turned to 10 natural history museums in the U.S. These institutions offer more than just public ...
Leprosy has existed since at least Biblical times, yet scientists still don’t know exactly how Mycobacterium leprae causes the disease’s symptoms. Though antibiotics can treat the illness, researchers ...
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Two 4,000-Year-Old Skeletons in Chile Just Upended What We Know About the Origins of Leprosy
In northern Chile, two men were buried nearly 4,000 years ago. Now, their well-preserved bones have revealed something unexpected: the genetic traces of Mycobacterium lepromatosis, one of the bacteria ...
In order to understand the role of the upstream region of the Mycobacterium leprae 18-kDa gene on the gene regulation, the region was divided into two at the -50 position from the first start codon of ...
Out of the 36 people who were diagnosed with leprosy this year in Florida, 27 of them acquired the disease within the state ...
Reviews of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 9, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1987), pp. 562-577 (16 pages) Leprosy has been considered to occur only after exposure to a human case. However, evidence has been ...
Years-old tissue samples from armadillos in museum collections may harbor Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that causes Hansen's disease, also called leprosy, according to recent research my ...
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