clearvision Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Med Page Today:A leprosy bacterium common to wild armadillos may have spread to humans living in parts of the Southern U.S., investigators reported.A strain of Mycobacterium leprae isolated from three patients proved to be identical to that obtained from a wild armadillo, and subsequent genotyping of strains from another 33 armadillos and 50 Louisiana clinic outpatients also showed a high degree of correlation, according to Richard W. Truman, PhD, of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and colleagues.In fact, the same bacterial strain has also been identified from armadillos in five states -- a finding consistent with recent acquisition or rapid emergence of the infection, Truman and co-authors reported in the April 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine Reports of infected armadillos have come from Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Mexico, in addition to Louisiana and Texas. ------Better stop with eating and playing with that road kill.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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