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Tanvi P. Honap
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected] (TPH); [email protected] (ACS)
Current address: Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America
Affiliation: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5271-9162
Luz-Andrea Pfister
Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation
Affiliation: School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Genevieve Housman
Roles Formal analysis, Writing - review & editing
Current address: Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Affiliation: School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Sarah Mills
Roles Investigation
Affiliation: California National Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America
Ross P. Tarara
Roles Resources
Affiliation: California National Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America
Koichi Suzuki
Roles Resources
Affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Frank P. Cuozzo
Roles Resources
Affiliation: Lajuma Research Centre, Louis Trichardt (Machado), South Africa
Michelle L. Sauther
Roles Resources
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
Michael S. Rosenberg
Roles Formal analysis, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Anne C. Stone
Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected] (TPH); [email protected] (ACS)
Affiliations School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of AmericaAbstract
Leprosy is caused by the bacterial pathogens Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Apart from humans, animals such as nine-banded armadillos in the Americas and red squirrels in the British Isles are naturally infected with M. leprae. Natural leprosy has also been reported in certain nonhuman primates, but it is not known whether these occurrences are due to incidental infections by human M. leprae strains or by M. leprae strains specific to nonhuman primates. In this study, complete M. leprae genomes from three naturally infected nonhuman primates (a chimpanzee from Sierra Leone, a sooty mangabey...