TY - JOUR
KW - Animals
KW - Armadillos
KW - Disease Models, Animal
KW - Disease Susceptibility
KW - Lepromin
KW - leprosy
KW - Xenarthra
AU - Job C K
AU - Sanchez R M
AU - Hunt R
AU - Hastings R C
AB - <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>
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3430003?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1987 Dec
IS - 4
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <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>
PY - 1987
SP - 685
EP - 8
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Prevalence and significance of positive Mitsuda reaction in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus).
VL - 55
SN - 0148-916X
ER -