01166nas a2200265   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653001200055653001700067653001100084653001200095653001800107653002500125653001300150653002400163653002200187100002000209700001700229245014300246300001100389490000700400050002000407520045900427022001400886       1989                            d  c1989 Jun10aAnimals10aFossil Fuels10aHumans10aleprosy10aMycobacterium10aMycobacterium leprae10aNocardia10aNocardia Infections10aSoil Microbiology1 aChakrabarty A N1 aDastidar S G00aCorrelation between occurrence of leprosy and fossil fuels: role of fossil fuel bacteria in the origin and global epidemiology of leprosy.  a483-960 v27  aCHAKRABARTY19893 a<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>  a0019-5189