00913nas a2200145   4500000000100000008004100001653001100042653001600053653001200069100001500081245004000096856010600136490000600242520051900248       2010                            d10aStigma10aSouth Sudan10aleprosy1 aEremugo LE00aUnderstanding the Stigma of Leprosy  uhttp://www.southsudanmedicaljournal.com/assets/files/Journals/vol_3_iss_3_aug_10/Leprosy%20stigma.pdf0 v33 a<p>Leprosy is the oldest disease known to man. The earliest written records describing true leprosy came from&nbsp;India around the period 600 BC. Leprosy is caused by <em>Mycobacterium leprae</em>; the Norwegian, Dr Amauer&nbsp;Hansen, isolated the bacterium in 1873. Leprosy is also called Hansen’s disease after him. Although it is the&nbsp;first human pathogenic bacterium to be defined, <em>M. leprae</em> is the only bacterium causing disease in man that has&nbsp;not been cultured in the laboratory.</p>