Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/History_of_leprosy> ?p ?o }
- History_of_leprosy abstract "Using comparative genomics in 2005, geneticists traced the origins and worldwide distribution of leprosy from East Africa or the Near East along human migration routes. They found that there were four strains of M. leprae with specific regional locations. Strain 1 occurs predominately in Asia, the Pacific region, and East Africa; strain 4, in West Africa and the Caribbean; strain 3 in Europe, North Africa, and the Americas; and strain 2 only in Ethiopia, Malawai, Nepal/north India, and New Caledonia.On the basis of this, they offer a map of the dissemination of leprosy in the world. This confirm the spread of the disease along the migration, colonisation, and slave trade routes taken from West Africa to India, East Africa to the New World, and from Africa into Europe and vice versa.In spite of persistent claims from retrospective interpretations of the symptoms of leprosy in ancient Indian, Greek, and Middle Eastern documentary sources that describe skin afflictions, the skeletal remains from the second millennium B.C., discovered in 2009, represent the oldest documented evidence for leprosy. Located at Balathal, in Rajasthan, northwest India, the discoverers suggest that if the disease did migrate from Africa, to India, during the third millennium B.C. “at a time when there was substantial interaction among the Indus Civilization, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, there needs to be additional skeletal and molecular evidence of leprosy in India and Africa so as to confirm the African origin of the disease.”Although it is difficult to retrospectively identify descriptions of leprosy-like symptoms, what appears to be leprosy was discussed by Hippocrates in 460 BC.[53] Documentary evidence also indicates that it was recognized in the civilizations of ancient China, Egypt, Israel, and India.[22] In 1846, Francis Adams produced The Seven Books of Paulus Aegineta which included a commentary on all medical and surgical knowledge and descriptions and remedies from the Romans, Greeks, and Arabians. A proven human case was verified by DNA taken from the shrouded remains of a man discovered in a tomb next to the Old City of Jerusalem dated by radiocarbon methods to 1–50 AD.[54]The causative agent of leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, was discovered by G. H. Armauer Hansen in Norway in 1873, making it the first bacterium to be identified as causing disease in humans. The first effective treatment (promin) became available in the 1940s. The search for further effective anti-leprosy drugs led to the use of clofazimine and rifampicin in the 1960s and 1970s. Later, Indian scientist Shantaram Yawalkar and his colleagues formulated a combined therapy using rifampicin and dapsone, intended to mitigate bacterial resistance. Multidrug therapy (MDT) combining all three drugs was first recommended by the WHO in 1981. These three anti-leprosy drugs are still used in the standard MDT regimens.".
- History_of_leprosy thumbnail Gerhard_Armauer_Hansen.jpg?width=300.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageExternalLink ?id=qUEJAAAAIAAJ.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageExternalLink ?id=wHMIAAAAQAAJ.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageExternalLink view_by_stamp.php?&halsid=kr254hc6c1rlkgv4ds5hbgrr82&label=SHS&langue=en&action_todo=view&id=halshs-00258920&version=1.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageID "39388569".
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageLength "42556".
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageOutDegree "140".
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageRevisionID "683300182".
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Ahar_Chalcolithic.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Alice_Ball.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Anabas.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Greek.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Anesthesia.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Anne_Bargès.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Antibiotic_resistance.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Antimicrobial_resistance.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Aretaeus_of_Cappadocia.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Arsenic.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Atharva-veda.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Atharvaveda.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Avicenna.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Bathing.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Bayer.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Bazaar.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Bee.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Benedictine.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Bengal_Medical_College.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Bergen.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Beverage.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Bible_translations_into_English.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Boinet.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Bower_Manuscript.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Burma.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Calcutta.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Camphor.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Castration.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Category:Leprosy.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_characters.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Clofazimine.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Cobra.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Cognate.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Copt.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Copts.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Creosote.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Darmstadt.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink David_Prain.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Dermatophyte.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Dog.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Domestic_sheep.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Drink.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink East_India_Company.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Egypt.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Elidoro_Mercado.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Encyclopædia_Britannica.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink England.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink English_translations_of_the_Bible.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Evolution.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Favid.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Favus.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Frans_Hals_Museum.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_B._Power.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Frog.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Fungus.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Galen.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Gaucher.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Gauchers_disease.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Gavin_Milroy.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Gerhard_Armauer_Hansen.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Guy_Henry_Faget.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Gynocardia_odorata.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Haarlem.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Harbledown.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Hellebore.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Hindi.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink History_of_China.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Hubei.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Hussein_Kamel_of_Egypt.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Hydnocarpus_anthelmintica.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Hydnocarpus_kurzii.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Hydnocarpus_wightiana.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Hydnocarpus_wightianus.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Iceland.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Jan_de_Bray.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Rock.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Koine.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Koine_Greek.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Kolkata.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Leper_colony.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Leprosarium.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Leprosy.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Leprosy_stigma.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_India.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Indian_federal_legislation.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Louisiana.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Malta.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Manila.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Matthew_Paris.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Medical_College_and_Hospital,_Kolkata.
- History_of_leprosy wikiPageWikiLink Merck_&_Co..