Word: lepromin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single nine-banded armadillo that died recently at Gulf yielded some 300 trillion leprosy bacilli-good news for medical researchers who have been searching for ways to cultivate the bacteria for laboratory studies. Doctors will also be able to use the infected tissue to make a diagnostic reagent called lepromin, which is used to predict the severity of a leprosy patient's disease. The single New Iberia animal has yielded enough of the chemical to perform 15 million tests-about as many as there are leprosy patients in the world...
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