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.
BT - Indian journal of experimental biology C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2684847?dopt=Abstract CN - CHAKRABARTY1989 DA - 1989 Jun IS - 6 J2 - Indian J. Exp. Biol. LA - eng N2 -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.
PY - 1989 SP - 483 EP - 96 T2 - Indian journal of experimental biology TI - Correlation between occurrence of leprosy and fossil fuels: role of fossil fuel bacteria in the origin and global epidemiology of leprosy. VL - 27 SN - 0019-5189 ER -