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MYCOBACTERIA. Mycobacteria are classified as Gram-positive bacteria, but they have features of both Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms. Pathogenic mycobacteria include the organisms that cause tuberculosis and leprosy and are intracellular parasites, replicating within modified phagosomes of macrophages.
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As the spores germinate, they produce neurotoxins which, if ingested, leads to paralysis and either respiratory or cardiac failure. A very important disease-causing bacterium in the Western Cape is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB.
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