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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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Table

Characteristics of animals and samples tested in a study of Mycobacterium leprae in nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus), Ecuador*

Categories No. (%) M. leprae–positive, no. (%)
Tissue samples
Liver 38 (45.24) 8 (21.05)
Spleen 26 (30.95) 4 (15.38)
Muscle 10 (11.90) 1 (10)
Heart 3 (3.57) 0 (0)
Kidney 3 (3.57) 0 (0)
Lung 3 (3.57) 0 (0)
Ear 1 (1.19) 0 (0)
Total
 84 (100)
 13 (15.48)
Armadillo species
Dasypus novemcinctus 40 (83.33) 9 (22.50)
Dasypus spp. 6 (12.5) 0 (0)
D. pastasae 1 (2.08) 0 (0)
Cabassous centralis 1 (2.08) 0 (0)
Total
 48 (100)
 9 (18.75)
Provinces
Esmeraldas 10 (20.83) 1 (10)
Sucumbíos 9 (18.75) 1 (11.11)
Guayas 7 (14.58) 0 (0)
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas 7 (14.58) 3 (42.86)
Morona Santiago 4 (8.3) 0 (0)
Pastaza 3 (6.25) 1 (33.33)
Imbabura 2 (4.17) 1 (50)
Manabí 2 (4.17) 1 (50)
Cañar 1 (2.08) 1 (100)
Cotopaxi 1 (2.08) 0 (0)
Los Ríos 1 (2.08) 0 (0)
No information 1 (2.08) 0 (0)
Total 48 (100) 9 (18.75)

*A total of 84 tissue samples corresponding to 48 individual armadillos from 4 species were tested for Mycobacterium leprae. Percentage of M. leprae positives is calculated with the total sampling of each row. No samples were positive for M. lepromatosis.

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