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Volume 21, Number 12—December 2015
Research

Zoonotic Leprosy in the Southeastern United States

Rahul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh, W.J. Loughry, J. Mitchell Lockhart, W. Barry Inman, Malcolm S. Duthie, Maria T. Pena, Luis A. Marcos, David M. Scollard, Stewart T. Cole, and Richard W. TrumanComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Hansen’s Disease Program, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (R. Sharma, P. Singh, M.T. Pena, D.M. Scollard, R.W. Truman); Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge (R. Sharma, P. Singh, M.T. Pena); Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (P. Singh, S.T. Cole); Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA (W.J. Loughry, J.M. Lockhart); Florida Department of Health, Merritt Island, Florida, USA (W.B. Inman); Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA (M.S. Duthie); Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA (L.A. Marcos)

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Table 1

Serologic and molecular detection of Mycobacterium leprae infections among armadillos from various locations in the southeastern United States*

Location
 No. blood or serum samples
 Serologic screening, no. samples positive for M. leprae antigen
No. lymph node samples tested
 PCR, no. samples positive for M. leprae DNA
LID1
 PGL1
 LID1 or PGL1
 LID1 and PGL1
 RLEP locus
 hsp 18 locus
 One site
 Two sites
CMB 31 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 0
VAL 8 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
MRI 65 9 16 18 7 17 16 14 17 13
CON 38 5 2 7 0 5 5 2 5 2
DSO 23 7 0 7 0 7 6 3 7 3
PNB 117 11 13 20 4 19 19 19 19 19
PBH 23 5 1 6 0 3 3 2 3 2
TLT 340 24 31 45 10 42 41 36 42 36
Total 645 64 65 106 23 95 92 76 95 75

*LID, leprosy IDRI diagnostic 1 antigen; PGL, phenolic glycolipid 1 antigen; RLEP, mutlicopy repeat sequence; hsp, heat shock protein; CMB, Camp Blanding, FL; VLD: Valdosta, GA; MRI, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, FL; CON, Conecuh National Forest, AL; DSO, DeSoto National Forest, MS; PNB, Pinebloom Plantation, Albany, GA; PBH, Pebble Hill Plantation, Thomasville GA; TLT, Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL.

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