A unique strain of Mycobacterium leprae has been found in U.S. armadillos and patients Mycobacterium leprae causes leprosy. For those of us who live or lived in armadillo country, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine bears interesting news: Wild armadillos and many patients with leprosy in the southern United States are infected [...]
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Tagged: Adamandia Kapopoulou, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, David M. Scollard, Jacques Rougemont, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Mycobacterium leprae, Philippe Busso, Probable Zoonotic Leprosy in the Southern United States, Pushpendra Singh, Rahul Sharma, Richard W. Truman, Stewart T. Cole, Sylvain Brisse, Thomas P. Gillis, Yes You Can Get Leprosy from an Armadillo