12 сент. 2019 г. · Besides human beings, natural infection has been described in animals such as mangabey monkeys and armadillos. Leprosy is considered a global ...

16 окт. 2023 г. · There have also been reports of people getting leprosy after coming in direct contact with nine-banded armadillos, which can carry the bacteria ...

2 мар. 2015 г. · Armadillos are the only other animals besides humans to host the leprosy bacillus. In 2011, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article formally ...

Our findings establish that there are known extrahuman reservoirs of M. leprae in three animal species. There is considerable evidence that the armadillo plays ...

15 апр. 2024 г. · In the southern United States, some armadillos are naturally infected with the bacteria that cause Hansen's disease, and it may be possible ...

Armadillos are one of the few animals that are known to be able to have leprosy and that can transmit the infection.

29 июн. 2018 г. · Armadillos have been shown to transmit M. leprae to people in Texas, Louisiana and Florida, where humans come into contact with the animals. But ...

7 авг. 2018 г. · Armadillos and humans are linked in the strangest of ways. Armadillos are the only other species known to get leprosy.

27 апр. 2011 г. · For years, scientists have speculated that armadillos can pass on leprosy to humans, and that they are behind the few dozen cases of the ...