Assertion: leprosy | /r/HasProperty | infectious disease
Facets:
value: mildly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Leprosy is a mildly infectious disease caused by a bacteria, Mycobacterium Leprae.
text: Leprosy is thought to be infectious, transmitted through airborne droplets, such as when someone sneezes or coughs.
text: Leprosy dates back to 2000 B.C and is a mildly infectious condition that affects the nerves, eyes, skin, and mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract in over 200,000 people worldwide.
text: Leprosy is a mildly infectious disease caused by a bacteria, Mycobacterium Leprae.
text: Leprosy is an infectious disease that causes severe, disfiguring skin sores and nerve damage in the arms, legs, and skin areas around the body.
text: In 1873, Dr. Hansen discovered bacteria in leprosy lesions, suggesting leprosy was an infectious disease, not a hereditary disease or a punishment from the gods.
text: Leprosy is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an acid-fast, rod-shaped bacillus.
text: His discovery demonstrated that leprosy is an infectious disease propagated by a specific microorganism.
text: Leprosy is an infectious disease.
text: Also known as Hansen’s disease, leprosy is an infectious disease that has progresses slowly, and mostly affects the cooler parts of the body.
text: It was in 1873, over a hundred years ago, that the Norwegian physician Gerhard Hansen saw the leprosy bacillus under the microscope and proved that leprosy was an infectious disease and not a curse.
text: Leprosy is an infectious disease.
text: Leprosy is an infectious disease caused by an obligate intracellular bacillus Mycobacterium leprae.
text: Leprosy is an infectious disease caused by a rod-shaped, microaerophilic bacillus Mycobacterium leprae.
text: The principal opposition to Hansen's view that leprosy was an infectious disease came from his father-in-law, Daniel Cornelius Danielssen who considered it a hereditary disease and had stated this in his book, ‘’Traité de la Spedalskhed ou Elephantiasis des Grecs’’ - the standard reference book on leprosy from 1848 until the death of Danielssen in 1895.
text: Leprosy is an infectious disease, caused by bacteria Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae).
text: The discovery by Hansen in 1873 that leprosy was infectious and transmitted by a bacterium worsened leprosy stigma.
text: It is infectious and is caused by the Mycobacterium lepromatosis and the Mycobacterium leprae bacteria.
text: At the meeting Kensuke Mitsuda stressed that leprosy was infectious.
text: Leprosy is only mildly infectious.