Can this form of leprosy be carried by armadillos?
“Can this form of leprosy be carried by armadillos?”
I was reading about the strain carried by armadillos earlier. Evidently this one is a whole other monster.
“Can this form of leprosy be carried by armadillos?”
The armadillo is not a carrier of leprosy. It just so happens that Mycobacterium leprae will only grow in living tissue of a certain temperature and not on laboratory medium like agar plates. The footpads of mice were once used, but someone found out that the bacterium grew well in armadillos in a lab setting. They do not act as “carriers” in the wild.