Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) and the
more recently discovered Mycobacterium lepromatosis (M. lepromatosis). The two leprosy …

Most of the human pandemics reported to date can be classified as zoonoses. Among these,
there is a long history of infectious diseases that have spread from non-human primates …

Studying ancient DNA allows us to retrace the evolutionary history of human pathogens,
such as Mycobacterium leprae, the main causative agent of leprosy. Leprosy is one of the …

Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) and M. lepromatosis, an obligate
intracellular organism, and over 200,000 new cases occur every year. M. leprae parasitizes …

Background Recent advances in sequencing have facilitated large-scale analyses of the
metagenomic composition of different samples, including the environmental microbiome of …

Simple Summary There is a wide variety of diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, and
parasites that are transmitted to humans by different routes from other animals. These …

Mineralized dental plaque (calculus) has proven to be an excellent source of ancient
biomolecules. Here we present a Mycobacterium leprae genome (6.6-fold), the causative …

Molecular epidemiology investigations are notoriously challenging in the leprosy field
mainly because the inherent characteristics of the disease as well as its yet uncultivated …

The peripheral nervous system (PNS) relays messages between the central nervous system
(brain and spinal cord) and the body. Despite this critical role and widespread distribution …

Leprosy is a chronic granulomatous infectious disease caused by the pathogen,
Mycobacterium leprae, and the more recently discovered, M. lepromatosis. Described in …