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Red squirrels in the british isles are infected with leprosy bacilli
Avanzi, Charlotte; del-Pozo, Jorge; Benjak, Andrej; Stevenson, Karen; Simpson, Victor R.; Busso, Philippe; McLuckie, Joyce; Loiseau, Chloé; Lawton, Colin; Schoening, Janne; Shaw, Darren J.; Piton, Jérémie; Vera-Cabrera, Lucio; Velarde-Felix, Jesùs S.; McDermott, Fergal; Gordon, Stephen V.; Cole, Stewart T.; Meredith, Anna L. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016-11-10)Leprosy, caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae or the recently discovered Mycobacterium lepromatosis, was once endemic in humans in the British Isles. Red squirrels in Great Britain (Sciurus vulgaris) have increasingly ...