News tagged with mycobacterium leprae
The entwined destinies of mankind and leprosy bacteria
Leprosy still affects hundreds of thousands of people today throughout the entire world. An international team headed by EPFL professor Stewart Cole has traced the history of the disease from ancient Egypt to today and in ...
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Oldest evidence of leprosy found in 4000-year-old skeleton
A biological anthropologist from Appalachian State University working with an undergraduate student from Appalachian, an evolutionary biologist from UNC Greensboro, and a team of archaeologists from Deccan College (Pune, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 27, 2009 |
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Leprosy susceptibility genes reported
In the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of leprosy and the largest GWAS on an infectious disease, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and 26 institutes in China identified seven genes that increase ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Researchers identify new leprosy bacterium
A new species of bacterium that causes leprosy has been identified through intensive genetic analysis of a pair of lethal infections, a research team reports in the December issue of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 24, 2008 |
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New drug targets may fight tuberculosis and other bacterial infections in novel way
Over the course of the 20th Century, doctors waged war against infectious bacterial illness with the best new weapon they had: antibiotics. But the emergence of dangerous, multi-drug resistant strains of tuberculosis and ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 28, 2007 |
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