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📅 NSB 2021🎓 HS🔄 Round 10#️⃣ Question 17❓ TOSS-UP✍️ Short Answer

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Lab are studying antibiotic resistance in the bacterial genus Mycobacterium. One strain of Mycobacterium causes a disease in humans in which it replicates within nerve cells or macrophages, eventually causing the loss of the extremities in which it replicates. What is the name of this disease?

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