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Volume 30, Number 12—December 2024
Dispatch

Mycobacterium leprae in Nine-Banded Armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus), Ecuador

Daniel Romero-AlvarezComments to Author , Manuel Calvopiña, Emily Cisneros-Vásquez, Daniel Garzon-Chavez, Alaine K. Warren, Lauren S. Bennett, Ritika R. Janapati, Carlos Bastidas-Caldes, Melanie Cabezas-Moreno, Jacobus H. de Waard, Daniela Silva-Martinod, Roxane Schaub, Mary Jackson, A. Townsend Peterson, and Charlotte Avanzi
Author affiliation: Universidad Internacional SEK, Quito, Ecuador (D. Romero-Alvarez); University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA (D. Romero-Alvarez, A.T. Peterson); Universidad de las Américas, Quito (M. Calvopiña, E. Cisneros-Vásquez, C. Bastidas-Caldes, J.H. de Waard, D. Silva-Martinod); Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito (D. Garzon-Chavez); Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (A.K. Warren, L.S. Bennett, R.R. Janapati, M. Jackson, C. Avanzi); Agrocalidad, Quito (M. Cabezas-Moreno); Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne, Cayenne, French Guiana (R. Schaub)

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Locations of and geographic range Mycobacterium leprae detections in a study of M. leprae in nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus), Ecuador. A) Locations of armadillo collections and species identified. B) Locations from which M. leprae­–positive armadillos samples collected. In southern Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, >1 armadillo was collected (Appendix 2). No samples were positive for M. lepromatosis. C, D) Vector machine hypervolume and its projected geography. C) One-class support vector machine hypervolume with enclosed regions of environmental similarity to areas with M. leprae detections (red points); D) map with projected geography for M. leprae detections. Latitude and longitude are shown at edges. Mapping developed with the information available in Appendix 2. PC, principal component (see Appendix 1).

Figure. Locations of and geographic range Mycobacterium leprae detections in a study of M. leprae in nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus), Ecuador. A) Locations of armadillo collections and species identified. B) Locations from which M. leprae­–positive armadillos samples collected. In southern Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, >1 armadillo was collected (Appendix 2). No samples were positive for M. lepromatosis. C, D) Vector machine hypervolume and its projected geography. C) One-class support vector machine hypervolume with enclosed regions of environmental similarity to areas with M. leprae detections (red points); D) map with projected geography for M. leprae detections. Latitude and longitude are shown at edges. Mapping developed with the information available in Appendix 2. PC, principal component (see Appendix 1).

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