Insights from the Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium lepraemurium: Massive Gene Decay and Reductive Evolution

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. lepraemurium were...

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Autores principales: Benjak, Andrej, Honap, Tanvi P., Avanzi, Charlotte, Becerril-Villanueva, Enrique, Estrada-García, Iris, Rojas-Espinosa, Oscar, Stone, Anne C., Cole, Stewart T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2017
Materias:
Observation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29042494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01283-17

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29042494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01283-17

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