Mycobacterium leprae

  • A group of researchers have found that armadillo livers grew substantially when infected with Mycobacterium leprae.
  • In the study, the pathogen was able to maintain liver function and keep its exquisite architecture intact, giving rise to something that looked like stem cells.
  • The researchers documented the in-vitro discovery of Mycobacterium leprae’s ability to reprogram adult Schwann cells, the bacteria’s preferred host niche in the peripheral nervous system, “to a stage of progenitor/stem-like cells”.
  • Mycobacterium leprae is an acid-fast, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacterium and an obligate intracellular parasite, which means, unlike its relative Mycobacterium tuberculosis, it cannot be grown in cell-free laboratory ....
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