Armadillo-leprosy controversy

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REFERENCES

(Note: These references were compiled from a number of publications and memoranda dealing with this subject. Most of them, but not all, are cited in the documents on the web. Copies of personal communications will be submitted for deposit in the National Library of Medicine in the near future (Burchfield, 1998b). Citations to documents by the same authors in the same years (1976a and 1976b for example) may be inconsistent because the same number of them were not cited in all of the individual bibliographies used for this compilation.)

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Cottrell, E.H., D'Daddamio, G.H., Vidrine, M.F., DeRouen, M. S., Storrs, E. E., Walsh, G.P. & Burchfield, H. P.. 1974. Liver and spleen weights in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus, Linn.): normal vs. M. leprae infected. Leprosy Scientific Memoranda, L-631, December.

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