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Id: | 13222
| Author: | Chakrabarty, A. N; Dastidar, S. G
| Title: | Correlation between occurrence of leprosy and fossil fuels: role of fossil fuel bacteria in the origin and global epidemiology of leprosy
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| Source: | s.l; s.n; jun. 1989. 14 p. mapas, tab, graf.
| Abstract: | On the basis of correlative data on the global distribution of leprosy, its bacteria metabolizing fossil fuels (FF), and the FF themselves, the origin of leprosy in the world as a whole, and in the leprosy-free countries, in particular, as indigenous cases, appeared to be primarily due to a soil-to-man, and secondarily due to a man-to-man infection. These findings helped to elucidate similar problems of animal leprosies and nocardial diseases.(AU).
| Descriptors: | COMBUSTIVEIS FOSSEIS HANSENIASE/epidemiol HANSENIASE/transm MYCOBACTERIUM/isol MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE/isol NOCARDIA/isol MICROBIOLOGIA DO SOLO NOCARDIOSE/epidemiol NOCARDIOSE/transm
| Limits: | HUMANO ANIMAL
| Electronic Medium: | http://www.ilsl.br
| Location: | BR191.1; 02071/s |
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