Sentences with phrase «carrying mycobacterium»

Red squirrels in Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Wight were found to be carrying Mycobacterium lepromatosis, a bacterial strain that is closely related to a virulent form of human leprosy endemic in Mexico and the Caribbean.

The mechanism for this is unclear, but the researchers speculate that healthy individuals may be unwittingly carrying the mycobacteria between countries.

Not exact matches

Animals on Brownsea Island in Poole harbour carried a different type, Mycobacterium leprae, which is known to have affected people living in southern England over 700 years ago.

Research carried out by the University of Sussex and the Polish Academy of Sciences has identified two key proteins that allow mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), to «lay low» within cells designed to destroy them.