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Lung infection could be less transmissible than thought

#infectiousdiseasetransmission #lungs #bacterialgenetics Recent research found that various strains of the bacterium, Mycobacterium abscessus, were genetically similar, stoking fears that it was spreading from person to person. But a new study by Harvard Medical School researchers published May 22 in PNAS, calls those findings into question, offering an alternative explanation behind the genetic similarity of clinical clusters. This suggests that the pathogen may not be that prone to person-to-person transmission after all. The team set out to investigate a hypothesis that the samples appeared genetically similar because the pathogen was evolving at a very slow rate. Get the latest medical and health news at medicaldialogues.in Follow us on Twitter:   / medicaldialogs   Facebook:   / medicaldialogues   Instagram:   / medicaldialogues   LinkedIn:   / medical-dialogues   Website: https://medicaldialogues.in/