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Leprosy, sometimes known as Hansen's disease, is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an aerobic, acid-fast, rod-shaped mycobacterium. The modern term for the disease is named after the discoverer of the bacterium, Gerhard Armauer Hansen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Leprosy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.