@article{11087,
  keywords = {Animals, Armadillos, Disease Models, Animal, Disease Susceptibility, Lepromin, leprosy, Xenarthra},
  author = {Job C K and Sanchez R M and Hunt R and Hastings R C},
  title = {Prevalence and significance of positive Mitsuda reaction in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus).},
  abstract = {<p>One hundred two armadillos captured from the wild were lepomin tested. Nine of them (8.8%) showed a positive Mitsuda reaction. The histopathological appearance of the reaction had a spectrum showing tuberculoid, borderline tuberculoid, borderline lepromatous, and lepromatous histology. It is possible that armadillos can develop all the different types of leprosy seen in humans. The armadillo is a good animal model to test protective vaccines against leprosy.</p>},
  year = {1987},
  journal = {International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association},
  volume = {55},
  pages = {685-8},
  month = {1987 Dec},
  issn = {0148-916X},
  language = {eng},
}