Because M. lepromatosis can not be grown in the lab and animal models for this version of leprosy do not exist yet, the scientists used
an infected skin sample from a patient in Mexico to obtain the bacterium's genetic material.
Not exact matches
What's more, an ointment containing the peptide effectively treated wounds
infected with methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the increasingly common hospital infection bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii in mice and on laboratory
samples of human
skin.
Caravan took
samples from the thrips»
skin and added them to colonies of a fungus called Cordyceps bassiana, which often
infects insects.
The evidence for the presence of a mycelial fungus in affected areas of the
infected bats was obtained when tissue
samples from the Williams Hotel Mine were examined by SEM; this imaging method revealed abundant fungal growth on
skin and hair shafts (Fig. 1Ci - iv).