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Mycobacterium Charles Wang.

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1 Mycobacterium Charles Wang

2 Microbiological characteristics
Genus of Actinobacteria Typically causes serious diseases in mammals (ex. Leprosy) Aerobic and nonmotile Acid-Fast Gram-Positive Bacterium due to lack of outer cell membrane

3 PAthogenecity Do not show any adverse affect at first
Naturally resistant to many antibiotics such as penicillin Notoriously hard to treat because of their cell wall which is neither truly positive nor Gram negative Billions of people around the world have asymptomatic infections of M. Tuberculosis

4 Tuberculosis

5 Leprosy


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