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Charles Wang
 Genus
of Actinobacteria
 Typically causes serious diseases in mammals
(ex. Leprosy)
 Aerobic and nonmotile
 Acid-Fast Gram-Positive Bacterium due to
lack of outer cell membrane
Do not show any adverse affect at first
 Naturally resistant to many antibiotics such as
penicillin
 Notoriously hard to treat because of their cell
wall which is neither truly positive nor Gram
negative
 Billions of people around the world have
asymptomatic infections of M. Tuberculosis
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