ReviewRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo2019
Armadillos and leprosy: from infection to biological model.
Review in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence of Mycobacterium leprae in armadillos in Brazil: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Associated Factors of Mycobacterium Leprae Infection among People with Leprosy in Kwale County.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Human Skin as an Ex Vivo Model for MaintainingTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Shared challenges to the control of complex intracellular neglected pathogens.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- PGL-III, a Rare Intermediate ofACS central science · 2023Article
- Leprosy in French Guiana, 2015 to 2021: Dynamics of a Persistent Public Health Problem.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2023Article
- Evidence for Extensive Duplication and Subfunctionalization ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Detection and Monitoring ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- One Health Approaches to TraceFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
- Review
- Host Diversity and Origin of Zoonoses: The Ancient and the New.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Mycobacterium leprae is the primary causative agent of Hansen's disease or leprosy. Besides human beings, natural infection has been described in animals such as mangabey monkeys and armadillos. Leprosy is considered a global health problem and its complete pathogenesis is still unknown. As M. leprae does not grow in artificial media, armadillos have become the primary experimental model for leprosy, mimicking human disease including involvement of the peripheral nervous system. Leprosy transmission occurs through continuous and close contact of susceptible people with untreated infected people. However, unknown leprosy contact has been reported in leprosy-affected people, and contact with armadillos is a risk factor for leprosy. In the USA, leprosy is considered a zoonosis and this classification has recently been accepted in Brazil. This review presents information regarding the role of wild armadillos as a source of M. leprae for human infections, as well as the pathogenesis of leprosy.
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