Sentences with phrase «particularly mycobacterium»

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As more mycobacterial genomes are sequenced, a picture is emerging that Distributive Conjugal Transfer may have shuffled the genomes of environmental mycobacteria to create a strain that was particularly well suited for growth in mammalian lungs.

Wild boar and red deer are key hosts of bovine tuberculosis — a chronic, infectious disease mainly caused by Mycobacterium bovis — in southern Europe, with the incidence of TB in these animals particularly high in certain areas of Spain.

Prof. Aidan Doherty hopes this discovery will aid in the designing of new antibiotics that could help target mycobacteria, particularly during their latent phase.