Phylogenomics and antimicrobial resistance of the leprosy bacillus Mycobacterium leprae

Leprosy is a chronic human disease caused by the yet-uncultured pathogen Mycobacterium leprae. Although readily curable with multidrug therapy (MDT), over 200,000 new cases are still reported annually. Here, we obtain M. leprae genome sequences from DNA extracted directly from patients’ skin biop...

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Main Authors:	Benjak, Andrej, Avanzi, Charlotte, Singh, Pushpendra, Loiseau, Chloé, Girma, Selfu, Busso, Philippe, Fontes, Amanda N. Brum, Miyamoto, Yuji, Namisato, Masako, Bobosha, Kidist, Salgado, Claudio G., Da Silva, Moisés B., Bouth, Raquel C., Frade, Marco A. C., Filho, Fred Bernardes, Barreto, Josafá G., Nery, José A. C., Bührer Sékula, Samira, Lupien, Andréanne, Al Samie, Abdul R., Al Qubati, Yasin, Alkubati, Abdul S., Bretzel, Gisela, Vera Cabrera, Lucio, Sakho, Fatoumata, Johnson, Christian R., Kodio, Mamoudou, Fomba, Abdoulaye, Sow, Samba O., Gado, Moussa, Konaté, Ousmane, Stefani, Mariane M. A., Penna, Gerson O., Suffys, Philip N., Sarno, Euzenir Nunes, Moraes, Milton O., Rosa, Patricia S., Baptista, Ida M. F. Dias, Spencer, John S., Aseffa, Abraham, Matsuoka, Masanori, Kai, Masanori, Cole, Stewart T.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	RL Dermatología
Online Access:	http://eprints.uanl.mx/15971/1/44.pdf