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4000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from Chile reveal long-establishment of Hansen’s Disease in the Americas

2025-05-28

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Mycobacterium lepromatosis is a recently identified cause of Hansen’s Disease, and is associated with the more severe and potentially lethal presentations of diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL) and Lucio’s phenomenon (LP). Detection of this infection has been limited to a small number of individuals, leaving much to be learned about its global distribution and transmissibility. Its discov...

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Literature Corpus work: 4cda0e01-521f-5446-ab66-634330876834
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5776739/v1

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