Leprosy. We’ve all heard of it, but do you really know what causes it? What does the word make you think of? A disease that people got a long, long time ago? A super-contagious condition that causes ...

The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. To investigate this connection, we turned to 10 natural history museums in the U.S. These institutions offer more than just public ...

Leprosy has existed since at least Biblical times, yet scientists still don't know exactly how Mycobacterium leprae causes the disease's symptoms. Though antibiotics can treat the illness, researchers ...

Leprosy has existed since at least Biblical times, yet scientists still don’t know exactly how Mycobacterium leprae causes the disease’s symptoms. Though antibiotics can treat the illness, researchers ...

In order to understand the role of the upstream region of the Mycobacterium leprae 18-kDa gene on the gene regulation, the region was divided into two at the -50 position from the first start codon of ...

IN 1872 Hansen characterized Mycobacterium leprae as the causative agent in human leprosy. Hitherto, all attempts to cultivate this organism in vitro or to transmit it to experimental animals have met ...

Reviews of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 9, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1987), pp. 562-577 (16 pages) Leprosy has been considered to occur only after exposure to a human case. However, evidence has been ...

The findings that were published in the Tamil Nadu Journal of Public Health and Medical Research showed that over a span of ...

Leprosy has plagued mankind throughout history, but is far, far older than stories about the disease in the Bible, according to scientists. A new study claims the disease is probably the oldest ...

Years-old tissue samples from armadillos in museum collections may harbor Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that causes Hansen's disease, also called leprosy, according to recent research my ...