Leprosy survey among rural communities and wild armadillos from Amazonas state, Northern Brazil.

Leprosy survey among rural communities and wild armadillos from Amazonas state, Northern Brazil.

There is evidence that in southern US, leprosy is a zoonosis infecting wild Dasypus novemcinctus armadillos but the extent of this finding is unknown. This ecological study investigated leprosy in rural communities and in wild armadillos from the Brazilian Amazon. The study area was the Mamiá Lake o...

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Main Authors: Mariane Martins Araújo Stefani, Patricia Sammarco Rosa, Mauricio Barcelos Costa, Antônio Pedro Mendes Schetinni, Igor Manhães, Maria Araci Andrade Pontes, Patricia Costa, Luciana Raquel Vincenzi Fachin, Ida Maria Foschiani Dias Batista, Marcos Virmond, Emília Pereira, Maria Lucia Fernandes Penna, Gerson Oliveira Penna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209491

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