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The discovery of Mycobacterium leprae by G.H. Armauer Hansen in 1873 represented a link between two main concepts of medicine: microbes as a cause of chronic disease and social conditions that can play an important role in the epidemiology of a disease (Irgens, 1984). The distribution of leprosy among the population living on isolated farms in coastal Western Norway, gave rise to the question as to how much the environment could influence the epidemiology of this disease.
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Kazda, J. (2000). The ecological approach to leprosy:Non-cultivable acid-fast bacilli and environmentally-derived M. Leprae . In: The Ecology of Mycobacteria. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4102-4_7
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