Mycobacterium leprae
Translingual
Mycobacterium leprae (the brick-red rods in the image)
Proper noun
Mycobacterium leprae n
- 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 Encyclopedia of Life
- Mycobacterium leprae at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- List of sequenced bacterial genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia