An Anglo-French team has sequenced the genetic map of the leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae, a feat that could point to new ways to diagnose and treat the disfiguring disease that strikes ...

In the last 15 years, however, things have changed dramatically. As already noted, human MAP is a very slow-growing and finicky pathogen, as are most mycobacteria: another form, Mycobacterium leprae, ...

Sequencing of the genome of a second strain of Mycobacterium leprae and the development of a genome-wide typing scheme have provided deeper understanding of the evolution and epidemiology of the ...

M. leprae was the first pathogenic bacteria of humans to be identified and remains one of the few that cannot be cultured in vitro. It causes leprosy, a disease long recognized to occur in families ...

LEPROSY IS A RARE BUT SERIOUS INFECTIOUS DISEASE caused by Mycobacterium leprae. While global prevalence of the disease is decreasing, increasing rates of immigration from countries where leprosy is ...

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is a serious, infectious chronic disease caused by a harsh bacterial organism called Mycobacterium leprae. Leprosy has existed in time unknown and is not yet ...

Leprosy may conjure up images of lost limbs and isolated colonies, but the disease is actually much less extreme and completely treatable today. The modern name for leprosy is Hansen's disease; it's ...

A team of architectural and robotic researchers are using drones and specialised robots to map former leprosy colony. Between 1907 and 1959 Peel Island, off the coast of Brisbane, Australia, was a ...