@article{9996,
  keywords = {Animals, Fossil Fuels, Humans, leprosy, Mycobacterium, Mycobacterium leprae, Nocardia, Nocardia Infections, Soil Microbiology},
  author = {Chakrabarty A N and 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.},
  abstract = {<p>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.</p>},
  year = {1989},
  journal = {Indian journal of experimental biology},
  volume = {27},
  pages = {483-96},
  month = {1989 Jun},
  issn = {0019-5189},
  language = {eng},
}