In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

Leprosy, also called Hansen’s disease, is primarily caused by Mycobacterium leprae bacteria. But in 2008, scientists discovered that a similar species, M. lepromatosis, can cause it, too.Leprosy ...

The primary cause of leprosy is a bacterium called Mycobacterium leprae, and the researchers still think this was introduced to America by Europeans. However, it seems a lesser-known cul.

The vast majority of leprosy cases worldwide are caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae.But in 2008, Xiang-Yang Han at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and his colleagues ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS ...

Experts hope to uncover a 500-year-old hospital called a leprosarium; which people with leprosy would have admitted themselves into. Ms Sam Tipper, a senior lecturer from Anglia Ruskin university ...

Leprosy results from infection with the unculturable pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, and worldwide approximately 200,000 new cases are reported annually. 1 Multidrug therapy for multibacillary ...

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis , opens new tab will keep making medicines for malaria and leprosy, even if it does not get orders as normal amid the global health funding ...