TY - JOUR
KW - Animals
KW - DNA, Bacterial
KW - Female
KW - Infectious Disease Incubation Period
KW - leprosy
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Pan troglodytes
KW - Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
KW - Primate Diseases
KW - Sequence Analysis, DNA
AU - Suzuki K
AU - Udono T
AU - Fujisawa M
AU - Tanigawa K
AU - Idani G
AU - Ishii N
AB - <p>The length of the incubation period of leprosy following Mycobacterium leprae infection has never been conclusively determined, owing to the lack of a method to demonstrate the presence of an asymptomatic infection. We report a rare case of leprosy in a chimpanzee in which a 30-year incubation period was strongly suggested by single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis.</p>
BT - Journal of clinical microbiology
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20631101?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2010 Sep
DO - 10.1128/JCM.00017-10
IS - 9
J2 - J. Clin. Microbiol.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The length of the incubation period of leprosy following Mycobacterium leprae infection has never been conclusively determined, owing to the lack of a method to demonstrate the presence of an asymptomatic infection. We report a rare case of leprosy in a chimpanzee in which a 30-year incubation period was strongly suggested by single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis.</p>
PY - 2010
SP - 3432
EP - 4
T2 - Journal of clinical microbiology
TI - Infection during infancy and long incubation period of leprosy suggested in a case of a chimpanzee used for medical research.
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2937736/pdf/0017-10.pdf
VL - 48
SN - 1098-660X
ER -