Mycobacterium leprae

Translingual

Mycobacterium leprae (the brick-red rods in the image)

Proper noun

Mycobacterium leprae n

1. A taxonomic species within the family Mycobacteriaceae – the bacteria that causes leprosy, the first human-disease-causing bacterium to be identified.

Hypernyms

• (species): Actinomycetales - order; Mycobacteriaceae - family; Mycobacterium - genus

Hyponyms

• (species): Mycobacterium leprae TN - strain (genome sequenced)

References

• Mycobacterium leprae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mycobacterium leprae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Mycobacterium leprae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mycobacterium leprae at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• List of sequenced bacterial genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia