TY - JOUR
KW - Animals
KW - Armadillos
KW - leprosy
KW - Texas
KW - Xenarthra
AU - Clark K A
AU - Kim S H
AU - Boening L F
AU - Taylor M J
AU - Betz T G
AU - McCasland F V
AB - <p>Tissue sections from 237 nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) from 51 central Texas counties were examined microscopically for acid-fast bacilli and/or lesions of leprosy. Neither were found. A review of the literature relative to the incidence of leprosy from armadillos in Texas indicates that residents of counties along the Texas Gulf Coast may be at risk of contracting leprosy by handling infected armadillos or their tissues.</p>
BT - Journal of wildlife diseases
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3586200?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1987 Apr
DO - 10.7589/0090-3558-23.2.220
IS - 2
J2 - J. Wildl. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Tissue sections from 237 nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) from 51 central Texas counties were examined microscopically for acid-fast bacilli and/or lesions of leprosy. Neither were found. A review of the literature relative to the incidence of leprosy from armadillos in Texas indicates that residents of counties along the Texas Gulf Coast may be at risk of contracting leprosy by handling infected armadillos or their tissues.</p>
PY - 1987
SP - 220
EP - 4
T2 - Journal of wildlife diseases
TI - Leprosy in armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) from Texas.
VL - 23
SN - 0090-3558
ER -