Detection of Mycobacterium leprae infection in wild nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) using the rapid ML Flow test

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-87

  Deps, Patrícia Duarte ^a   Antunes, João Marcelo Azevedo De Paula ^a   Tomimori Yamashita, Jane ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Armadillos; Leprosy; ML Flow test; Reservoir

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; SEROLOGY;

DASYPODIDAE; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 34248546664     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822007000100019     Document Type: Article

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