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MARC view
Leprosy (Topical Term)
Used for/see from:
- Hanseniasis
- Hansen's disease
See also:
- Broader heading: Mycobacterial diseases
MESH (Leprosy x Hansen's Disease)
Americana, 2000: v. 17, p. 245 (Leprosy: In 1874 the leprosy bacillus was discovered by the Norwegian physician Gerhard Hansen, and the disease is sometimes popularly known as Hansen's disease though the term is not used by physicians.) v. 13, p. 779 (Hansen's disease: a communicable bacterial disease better known as leprosy)
Encarta world Eng. dict. (leprosy)
Inter. dict. med. biol. (hanseniasis: a rarely used term for leprosy)