Advertisers
|
Sponsors
|
Mycobacterium leprae - Mycobacterium leprae, also known as Hansen’s bacillus, is the bacterium that causes leprosy (Hansen's disease). It is an intracellular, pleomorphic, but usually rod shaped, acid fast, Gram positive, aerobic only remotely and only morphologically related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Leprosy - Leprosy, sometimes known as Hansen's disease, is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an aerobic, acid fast, rod-shaped mycobacterium. The modern term for the disease is named after the discoverer of the bacterium, Gerhard Armauer Hansen.
Lepromin - The lepromin skin test is used to determine what type of leprosy a person has. It involves the injection of a standardized extract of inactivated leprosy-causing bacteria (Mycobacterium leprae) under the skin.
Gerhard Armauer Hansen - Gerhard Henrick Armauer Hansen (July 29, 1841 - February 12, 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of Mycobacterium leprae as the causative agent of leprosy in 1873.
Infectious Skin Disease - ... were shunned and sequestered in of of range Hansen's and the disease comes from the discoverer of Mycobacterium leprae, G. A. Hansen. Multibacillary Hansen's disease elimination efforts are to reach populations that have not yet ...
Copyright 2006-2008.Web Directory All Rights Reserved.