HLTB21H3 Chapter 14: Chapter 14 study guide

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In the 1300s leprosy may have retreated because of the r ising incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis, which led to resistance to leprosy: leprosy spread from spain and africa to the americas in the 16th and. 17th centuries: 1860s americans and europeans who lived in hawaii feared the disease, so lepers were loaded onto ships and went to a settlement at. Kalawao: 1865 a leper colony was established on molokai, father damien joined the colony (stayed for 16 years) provided comfort and compassion to them, did not avoid contact with them, and died in. In 1894 in the state of louisiana they established a home for lepers, and was a neglected asylum. www. notesolution. com: 1873, discovery of leprosy bacillus called mycobacterium leprae by. It is an acid fast bacillus, cannot be grown in tissue culture and it grows very slowly and only in humans mice, and nine-banded armadillos, takes 2 weeks to divide.

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