One Health and Hansen's disease in Brazil.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Deps, Patrícia; Rosa, Patrícia S.
- Source
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 5/27/2021, Vol. 15 Issue 5, p1-6. 6p.
- Subject
- *HANSEN'S disease
*ARMADILLOS
*ZOONOSES
- Language
- ISSN
- 1935-2727
Zoonotic Hansen's disease in Brazil Persons affected by Hansen's disease in Brazil often report no known contact with another affected person, either in their household or outside. In endemic communities where person-to-person spread is the main mode of transmission, the additional risk of zoonotic transmission was evident in a cross-sectional study which reported a higher median anti-phenolic glycolipid 1 (PGL-1) titer in people who consumed armadillo meat more than once per month compared with not at all [[26]] and in a study among child and adolescent household contacts of Hansen's disease cases which reported higher anti-natural octyl disaccharide-leprosy IDRI diagnostic (NDO-LID) antibody levels in those who had consumed armadillo meat compared to those who had not [[27]]. Hansen's disease is now officially recognized as a zoonosis in the USA, based on evidence of widespread natural infection of armadillos with I M i . Contact with armadillos increases the risk of leprosy in Brazil: a case control study. [Extracted from the article]