Samples from 77 nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) inhabiting a 16.7 km portion of the East Atchafalaya River Levee, Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana, were serologically tested and/or histopathologically examined for evidence of naturally acquired leprosy. Five of 67 (7.5%) armadillos tested seropositive with ELISA test for IGM class antibodies to the phenolic-glycolipid-1 antigen of Mycobacterium leprae. One of 74 (1.3%) was histopathologically positive as determined by presence of acid-fast bacteria in nerves.
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1 April 1987
Surveillance for Naturally Acquired Leprosy in a Nine-banded Armadillo Population
D. E. Stallknecht,
R. W. Truman,
M. E. Hugh-Jones,
C. K. Job
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Vol. 23 • No. 2
April 1987
Vol. 23 • No. 2
April 1987
Dasypus novemcinctus
Leprosy
Mycobacterium leprae
nine-banded armadillo
survey