Sentences with phrase «leprosy bacillus»

According to the authors this may be due to the extremely thick and impervious waxy cell wall of the leprosy bacillus that protects their DNA from degradation.

Several bacterial strains from East Asia belonged to the ancestral lineages of the leprosy bacilli.

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Armadillos never had leprosy until Europeans brought the bacillus to the New World; now the animals cause one - third of all leprosy infections contracted in the United States and serve as a leading model for leprosy research.