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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 25(4), 1976, pp. 630-632
Copyright © 1976 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Experimental Alimentary Infection of Anole Lizards (Anolis carolinensis) with Mycobacterium Ulcerans*

Leonard C. Marcus, Kurt D. Stottmeier AND Richard H. Morrow
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, State Laboratory Institute, 305 South Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130, Mattapan Chronic Disease Hospital, Department of Health and Hospitals, Boston, Massachusetts 02126, and Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Pathogenic Mycobacterium ulcerans were recovered from the stool of anole lizards up to 11 days after inoculation by stomach tube. M. ulcerans was isolated from the liver of 3 of 20 lizards and acid fast bacteria were seen in the mucosa of intrahepatic bile ducts in 2 of these 10 weeks post-inoculation. These results provide equivocal support for our hypothesis that herpetofauna are a reservoir of infection with M. ulcerans.

Accepted for publication February 21, 1976.


* This work was supported by NIH Grant 5 TO1 AI00177-09.






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