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leprosy  

Définition

  • Leprosy is increasingly known by the less offensive name of Hansen's disease (HD). It was the first chronic disease to be attributed to a bacterial cause, when the Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen identified the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae in 1873. [Source: Encyclopedia of Disability; Leprosy]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VB6LD9DT-S

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