Isolation of Mycobacterium lepromatosis and Development of Molecular Diagnostic Assays to Distinguish Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis

BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium leprae was thought to be the exclusive causative agent of leprosy until Mycobacterium lepromatosis was identified in a rare form of leprosy known as diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL). METHODS: We isolated M. lepromatosis from a patient with DLL and propagated it in athymic...

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Pubblicato in:Clin Infect Dis
Autori principali: Sharma, Rahul, Singh, Pushpendra, McCoy, Rajiv C, Lenz, Shannon M, Donovan, Kelly, Ochoa, Maria T, Estrada-Garcia, Iris, Silva-Miranda, Mayra, Jurado-Santa Cruz, Fermin, Balagon, Marivic F, Stryjewska, Barbara, Scollard, David M, Pena, Maria T, Lahiri, Ramanuj, Williams, Diana L, Truman, Richard W, Adams, Linda B
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press 2019
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8189713/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31732729
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz1121
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