Han|sen's bacillus

Han|sen's bacillus
Han|sen's bacillus «HAN suhnz»,
the rod-shaped bacterium which causes leprosy.
[< Gerhard A. Hansen, 1841-1912, a Norwegian physician, who discovered the bacillus in 1874]

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