Skeleton that yielded a M. lepromatosis genome (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Skeleton that yielded a M. lepromatosis genome

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Researchers have reconstructed two genomes of Mycobacterium lepromatosis in 4000-year-old human skeletons from Chile.

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© José Castelleti-Dellepiane & Anna Brizuela

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To be used for reporting on this research by Darío A. Ramirez et al. (2025) only.

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