Mycobacterial infection models
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Mycobacterial infection.
Tuberculosis and leprosy are two well known mankind diseases that are caused by members of the genus Mycobacterium. When originally named in 1896, this genus contained the leprosy bacillus (Mycobacterium leprae) observed by Armour Hansen in 1874 and the tubercle bacillus (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) observed and cultured by Robert Koch in 1882. As time went by, other bacilli similar to those of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology and Infection
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1198-743X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00035.x