Philippe Busso

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Probable zoonotic leprosy in the southern United States

Stewart Cole, Adamantia Kapopoulou, Jacques Rougemont, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh, Rahul Sharma

In the southern region of the United States, such as in Louisiana and Texas, there are autochthonous cases of leprosy among native-born Americans with no history of foreign exposure. In the same region, as well as in Mexico, wild armadillos are infected wi ...

2011

Molecular drug susceptibility testing and genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae strains from South America

Stewart Cole, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh

Possible drug resistance in Mycobacterium leprae strains from Venezuela and three other South American countries was surveyed by molecular methods. None of the 230 strains from new leprosy cases exhibited drug resistance-associated mutations. However, two ...

2011

A Case of Diffuse Lepromatous Leprosy associated with Mycobacterium lepromatosis

Stewart Cole, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh

An 86-year old female patient from northeast Mexico presented with diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL). Sequence analysis of four genes (rrs, rpoB, sigA and hsp65) from the skin biopsy identified Mycobacterium lepromatosis. This is the first independent conf ...

2011

Comparative genomic and phylogeographic analysis of Mycobacterium leprae

Stewart Cole, Jacques Rougemont, Alexandre Gattiker, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh

Reductive evolution and massive pseudogene formation have shaped the 3.31-Mb genome of Mycobacterium leprae, an unculturable obligate pathogen that causes leprosy in humans. The complete genome sequence of M. leprae strain Br4923 from Brazil was obtained b ...

2009

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