Highly Reduced Genome of the New Species Mycobacterium uberis, the Causative Agent of Nodular Thelitis and Tuberculoid Scrotitis in Livestock and a Close Relative of the Leprosy Bacilli
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DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00405-18
Abstract: M. uberis is an emerging skin pathogen in dairy animals. Its genome underwent massive reduction and gene decay, leading to a minimal set of genes required for an obligatory intracellular lifestyle, which highly resembles the… read more here.
Keywords: pathogen; leprosy bacilli; scrotitis; nodular thelitis ... See more keywords