01055nas a2200121   4500000000100000008004100001100001500042245004700057856006900104050001700173520072900190022001400919       2016                            d1 aScollard D00aInfection with Mycobacterium lepromatosis.  uhttp://www.ajtmh.org/content/early/2016/07/14/ajtmh.16-0473.long  aSCOLLARD20163 a<p>Microbiologically speaking, the ancient scourge of leprosy has a new face. Considered a curse for millennia, the causative agent, Mycobacterium leprae, was first described by Armauer Hansen in 1874. This inaugurated the field of medical microbiology, preceding the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis But M. leprae is not cultivable, a fact that has greatly hindered many of the basic studies that enabled rapid progress in understanding other infectious diseases. Sequencing of the full M. leprae genome ushered in a new era in the microbiology of this disease, and it was not long before molecular studies identified a genetically similar organism associated with leprosy, dubbed "Mycobacterium lepromatosis".</p>
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