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Lepra: various etiologies from miasma to bacteriology and genetics.

Clinics in dermatology - 1 Jan 2000

Grzybowski Andrzej, Sak Jarosław, Suchodolska Elżbieta, Virmond Marcos

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Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by a close relative of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Mycobacterium leprae. There have been various beliefs in its etiology with two main concepts emerging: anticontagion and contagion. From ancient times through the early Middle Ages, the miasmatic theory of leprosy was the main anticontagion view. The development of histopathologic and cytologic studies in the second...

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PMID: 25432805
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2014.07.012

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