Feline leprosy due to Candidatus ‘Mycobacterium lepraefelis’: Further clinical and molecular characterisation of eight previously reported cases and an additional 30 cases

Objectives:This paper, the last in a series of three on ‘feline leprosy’, provides a detailed description of disease referable to the previously unnamed species, Candidatus ‘Mycobacterium lepraefelis’, a close relative of the human pathogens Mycobacterium …