00940nas a2200241   4500000000100000008004100001260003600042653001200078653003100090653004000121653002600161653002600187653001100213653001200224653001100236100001200247245005900259300000800318490000700326050001500333520033600348022001400684       2012                            d  c2012 FebbMA HealthcareaLondon10aAnimals10aBacteriological Techniques10aEuropean Continental Ancestry Group10aHistory, 19th Century10aHistory, 20th Century10aHumans10aleprosy10aNorway1 aEllis H00aGerhard Hansen: discoverer of the organism of leprosy.  a1130 v73  aELLIS 20123 a<p>This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the death, on 12 February 1912, of the Norwegian leprologist, Gerhard Hansen, who was the first to describe the Mycobacterium leprae (Hansen's bacillus). It was, in fact, only the second specific disease-causing organism to be discovered, the first being the bacillus of anthrax.</p>  a1750-8460