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Screening of faecal and necropsy samples confirmed the presence of M. leprae as the causative agent at each site and phylogenomic comparisons with other strains from humans and other animals show that the chimpanzee strains belong to different and rare genotypes (4N/O and …
Screening of faecal and necropsy samples confirmed the presence of M. leprae as the causative agent at each site and phylogenomic com …