Understanding The Role Of The Ancestor Of Crohn’s Disease Pathogen

An Indian team of researchers led by Seyed E. Hasnain of the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), University of Hyderabad, India has found that a seemingly unknown mycobacterial organism Mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP) could be the earliest ancestor of the ‘generalist’ branch of mycobacterial pathogens. The ‘generalist’ bacteria infect anything from cockroaches to human and are capable of surviving in soil and water as against human adapted ’specialists’ such as tubercle and leprosy bacilli. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Immune System / Vaccines on October 5th, 2007