Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Aerosol transmission between close asymptomatic contacts appears to be a key route of transmission for ...

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 ...

Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae strains that caused leprosy in ...

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 ...

Armadillos, with their sharp claws and body armor, don't have a reputation for being cuddly. New research should make them even less so. They turn out to be a potential source of leprosy in ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The activity of amoxicillin plus clavulanic acid Against logarithmically multiplying Mycobacterium leprae was evaluated by treating mice by ...

Research is finally unearthing some of the ancient mysteries behind leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, which has plagued humankind throughout history. The new research findings suggest that the ...

Leprosy, long believed to have been introduced to the Americas by Europeans, has a more complex history. A recent study reveals that Mycobacterium lepromatosis, a leprosy-causing bacteria, existed in ...

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 ...

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 ...