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MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE This dangerous, slow moving bacTeria causes “leprosy” which affects the victims skin, nerves, and mucous membranes, causing boils. The bacterium is spread through water droplets, like a cough or sneeze. The spreading of the bacterium could take years to show symptoms. Leprosy mainly affects humans and ninebanded armadillos. The treatment for leprosy is a combination of rifampin, dapsone, and clofazime. Some facts about leprosy is that it does not make limbs fall off as people think. Also, it affects armadillos, and mice. Scientists have been unable to culture it, because it develops the best in the extremities of the host. Bibliography http://bacteria.emedtv.com/mycobacteriumleprae/mycobacterium-leprae.html http://diseases.emedtv.com/leprosy/cureleprosy.html http://microbes.historique.net/leprae.html http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/M_leprae/
