TY - JOUR
KW - Animals
KW - Bacteriological Techniques
KW - European Continental Ancestry Group
KW - History, 19th Century
KW - History, 20th Century
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Norway
AU - Ellis H
AB - <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>
BT - British journal of hospital medicine (London, England : 2005)
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22504759?dopt=Abstract
C2 - UK
CN - ELLIS 2012
CY - London
DA - 2012 Feb
IS - 2
J2 - Br J Hosp Med (Lond)
LA - eng
N2 - <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>
PB - MA Healthcare
PP - London
PY - 2012
EP - 113
T2 - British journal of hospital medicine (London, England : 2005)
TI - Gerhard Hansen: discoverer of the organism of leprosy.
VL - 73
SN - 1750-8460
ER -