TY - JOUR
KW - Animals
KW - Armadillos
KW - Brain
KW - leprosy
KW - Macrophages
KW - Meninges
KW - Meningoencephalitis
KW - Xenarthra
AU - Job C K
AU - Sanchez R M
AU - Hastings R C
AB - <p>The brains from 10 nine-banded armadillos with lepromatous leprosy were studied histopathologically. All of them showed evidence of lepromatous meningitis. In two there was invasion by Mycobacterium leprae into the brain tissue, with neuronal cells and glial cells containing intracellular bacilli. To our knowledge, this is the first report of meningoencephalitis in a lepromatous nine-banded armadillo.</p>
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3411167?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1988 Jun
IS - 2
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The brains from 10 nine-banded armadillos with lepromatous leprosy were studied histopathologically. All of them showed evidence of lepromatous meningitis. In two there was invasion by Mycobacterium leprae into the brain tissue, with neuronal cells and glial cells containing intracellular bacilli. To our knowledge, this is the first report of meningoencephalitis in a lepromatous nine-banded armadillo.</p>
PY - 1988
SP - 291
EP - 5
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Lepromatous meningoencephalitis in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus).
VL - 56
SN - 0148-916X
ER -