TY - JOUR
KW - Aedes
KW - Animals
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Mice
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Time Factors
AU - Narayanan E
AU - Kirchheimer W F
AU - Bedi B M
AB - <p>Aedes aegypti mosquitoes which were first allowed to feed on untreated lepromatous leprosy patients, and then to refeed on mouse footpads were found to transfer Mycobacterium leprae to the footpads as seen by the subsequent multiplication of the bacilli in the footpads. Results presently available are insufficient to come to any conclusion about the actual role of mosquitoes in the transmission of leprosy in the field.</p>
BT - Leprosy in India
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/333183?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 1977 Apr
IS - 2
J2 - Lepr India
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Aedes aegypti mosquitoes which were first allowed to feed on untreated lepromatous leprosy patients, and then to refeed on mouse footpads were found to transfer Mycobacterium leprae to the footpads as seen by the subsequent multiplication of the bacilli in the footpads. Results presently available are insufficient to come to any conclusion about the actual role of mosquitoes in the transmission of leprosy in the field.</p>
PY - 1977
SP - 181
EP - 6
T2 - Leprosy in India
TI - Transfer of leprosy bacilli from patients to mouse footpads by Aedes aegypti.
VL - 49
SN - 0024-1024
ER -