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 ...
A DNA probe encoding ~80% of the 18-kDa protein gene of Mycobacterium leprae was isolated and tested for specificity by assessing hybridization of the probe to genomic DNA from taxonomically related ...