树鼩(Tupaia Belangeri)是云南的一种野生动物,属哺乳动物,体温近于人类者(38℃左右)。寿命5～10年。因而我们选择此动物进行麻风杆菌动物模型的实验。从1983年开始,在5年中,进行多种方式和多次的重复足垫的接种,证实麻风杆菌已能在此动物中生长繁殖,其细菌量可达2.7×10~9,多于小白鼠足垫中者。足垫的组织病理变化也符合麻风的表现。所以我们认为根据以上实验结果,证实树鼩是麻风杆菌又一个新的模型。 Tupaia Belangeri is a wild animal in Yunnan. It belongs to mammals and has a temperature of nearly 38 ° C. Life expectancy of 5 to 10 years. Therefore, we chose this animal for experiments in the animal model of leprosy. Since 1983, in five years, a variety of ways and repeated footpads inoculation, confirmed that the bacterium has been able to leprosy in this animal growth and reproduction, the amount of bacteria up to 2.7 × 10 ~ 9, more than small Foot pad in the mouse. Footpad histopathological changes are also in line with the performance of leprosy. Therefore, we think that based on the above experimental results, it is confirmed that tree shrew is another new model of M. leprae.