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Mycobacterium leprae
Definition 1
A species of aerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is acid fast, stains with carbol fuchsin rather than a traditional Gram stain, has the longest doubling time of all known bacteria, and has never been cultured in vitro. Mycobacterium leprae is pathogenic, being the causative agent of leprosy. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Mycobacterium leprae. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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