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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Main Authors: Benjak, Andrej, Honap, Tanvi P., Avanzi, Charlotte, Becerril-Villanueva, Enrique, Estrada-García, Iris, Rojas-Espinosa, Oscar, Stone, Anne C., Cole, Stewart T.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Observation
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646247/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29042494
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01283-17
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