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Lab Invest
; 56(1): 44-8, 1987 Jan.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-3795871
RESUMO
Three pregnant lepromatous armadillos along with the three sets of four fetuses and their placentae were studied histopathologically. Mycobacterium leprae were present in the decidual tissue, trophoblastic cells which line the chorionic villi, and in the cells that form the internal structure of the villi. Acid-fast organisms were also seen in the spleens of three fetuses. Congenital infection is clearly possible in leprosy in the armadillo and may also occur in humans.