New case report in Leprosy Review Volume 96/3

Relapse – a diagnostic enigma: the role of 16S rRNA PCR in deciding whether or not to restart MDT by R. Aswini

https://leprosyreview.org/article/96/3/20-25068

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Rare form of leprosy infected people in Americas before European arrival, 4,000-year-old bones suggest Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long before...

Rare form of leprosy infected people in Americas before European arrival, 4,000-year-old bones suggest #Science #Biology #Genetics #LeprosyResearch #AncientGenetics #PaleoAnthropology