2019 In many American homes, water is treated with chlorine and chloramine, which kill pathogens but not mycobacteria, a genus that includes the cause of tuberculosis. and a fascination with the basic biology of the mycobacterium that is the causative agent of TB.
2020 Davies says the clay has also demonstrated the ability to combat mycobacterium ulcerans, a debilitating skin infection. Camille Guerin, who developed it in the early 1900s from mycobacterium bovis, a form of tuberculosis that infects cattle. Joseph Osmundson, The New Republic, 30 July 2020 The vaccine is named after its inventors, Dr. 2020 Tuberculosis is a disease of the lungs caused by a mycobacterium. 2020 In 2012, for example, Dávalos used shotgun proteomics -a type of protein analysis common in cancer medicine-to help Corthals identify a previously unsequenced mycobacterium in a 500-year-old Andean Inca mummy.Įleanor Cummins, Science, 4 Dec.
Recent Examples on the Web Serious pathogens commonly found in plumbing include mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), which can lead to turberculois, and pseudomonas aeruginosa, which causes a wide variety of diseases including respiratory and gastrointestinal infections.Įlena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 25 June 2021 Indeed, this infection, caused by a cousin of tuberculosis, mycobacterium marinum (M.M.), is sometimes called fish handlers’ disease.