Mycobacterium leprae in six-banded (Euphractus sexcinctus) and nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) in Northeast Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 209-213

  Frota, Cristiane Cunha ^a   Lima, Luana Nepomuceno Costa ^a   Rocha, Adalgiza da Silva ^b   Suffys, Philip Noel ^b   Rolim, Benedito Neilson ^c   Rodrigues, Laura Cunha ^d   Barreto, Maurício Lima ^e   Kendall, Carl ^f   Kerr, Ligia Regina Sansigolo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Núcleo de Controle de Doenças Transmitidas por Vetores Secretaria da Saúde do Estado do Ceará   (Brazil)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^f TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dasypus novemcinctus; Eco epidemiology; Euphractus sexcinctus; Leprosy; Mycobacterium leprae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARMADILLOS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; DASYPODIDAE; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; EUPHRACTUS; EUPHRACTUS SEXCINCTUS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 84871526507     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900029     Document Type: Article

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