@article{22327,
  keywords = {Genes, Bacterial, Humans, Leprosy, lepromatous, Molecular Sequence Data, Mycobacterium leprae, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Sequence Analysis, DNA},
  author = {Gillis T and Scollard D and Lockwood DN},
  title = {What is the evidence that the putative Mycobacterium lepromatosis species causes diffuse lepromatous leprosy?},
  abstract = {<p>Han et al. have made a retrospective isolation of DNA from two patients with fatal Lucio's phenomenon. This DNA does have some molecular differences to M. leprae and may constitute a variant of M. leprae. However the experiments and data needed to confirm that this is a new leprosy-causing species have not yet been done. We have outlined the work that does need to be done. For the moment the assertion that 'M. lepromatosis' is a new leprosy-causing species is not proven.</p>},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Leprosy review},
  volume = {82},
  pages = {205-9},
  month = {2011 Sep},
  publisher = {LEPRA Health in Action},
  address = {Colchester},
  issn = {0305-7518},
  url = {https://leprosyreview.org/article/82/3/01-702},
  language = {eng},
}