TY - JOUR
KW - Aged
KW - Aged, 80 and over
KW - Animals
KW - Armadillos
KW - Biopsy
KW - Clofazimine
KW - Dapsone
KW - Diagnosis, Differential
KW - Disease Reservoirs
KW - Drug Therapy, Combination
KW - Endemic Diseases
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Leprostatic Agents
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Mississippi
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - polymerase chain reaction
KW - Rifampin
KW - Skin
KW - Zoonoses
AU - Abide JM
AU - Webb RM
AU - Jones H
AU - Young L
AB - <p>Three native-born patients from the Mississippi Delta presented with leprosy over a 13-month period. None had a history of foreign travel, contact with each other, or known leprosy patients. Two patients' lesions lacked anesthesia, and all had a history of armadillo exposure. These cases add to the association of armadillo exposure and the subsequent development of leprosy.</p>
BT - Southern medical journal
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18475242?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2008 Jun
DO - 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31816f8610
IS - 6
J2 - South. Med. J.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Three native-born patients from the Mississippi Delta presented with leprosy over a 13-month period. None had a history of foreign travel, contact with each other, or known leprosy patients. Two patients' lesions lacked anesthesia, and all had a history of armadillo exposure. These cases add to the association of armadillo exposure and the subsequent development of leprosy.</p>
PY - 2008
SP - 635
EP - 8
T2 - Southern medical journal
TI - Three indigenous cases of leprosy in the Mississippi delta.
VL - 101
SN - 1541-8243
ER -