TY - JOUR
KW - Animals
KW - Antibodies, Bacterial
KW - Armadillos
KW - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
KW - Female
KW - leprosy
KW - Louisiana
KW - Male
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Xenarthra
AU - Stallknecht D E
AU - Truman R W
AU - Hugh-Jones M E
AU - Job C K
AB - <p>Samples from 77 nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) inhabiting a 16.7 km portion of the East Atchafalaya River Levee, Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana, were serologically tested and/or histopathologically examined for evidence of naturally acquired leprosy. Five of 67 (7.5%) armadillos tested sero-positive with ELISA test for IGM class antibodies to the phenolic-glycolipid-1 antigen of Mycobacterium leprae. One of 74 (1.3%) was histopathologically positive as determined by presence of acid-fast bacteria in nerves.</p>
BT - Journal of wildlife diseases
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3295310?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1987 Apr
DO - 10.7589/0090-3558-23.2.308
IS - 2
J2 - J. Wildl. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Samples from 77 nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) inhabiting a 16.7 km portion of the East Atchafalaya River Levee, Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana, were serologically tested and/or histopathologically examined for evidence of naturally acquired leprosy. Five of 67 (7.5%) armadillos tested sero-positive with ELISA test for IGM class antibodies to the phenolic-glycolipid-1 antigen of Mycobacterium leprae. One of 74 (1.3%) was histopathologically positive as determined by presence of acid-fast bacteria in nerves.</p>
PY - 1987
SP - 308
EP - 10
T2 - Journal of wildlife diseases
TI - Surveillance for naturally acquired leprosy in a nine-banded armadillo population.
VL - 23
SN - 0090-3558
ER -