Serologic response to culture filtrate antigens of Mycobacterium ulcerans during Buruli ulcer disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 158-164

  Dobos, Karen M ^a,b   Spotts, Ellen A ^a,b   Marston, Barbara J ^a   Horsburgh Jr , C Robert ^a   King, C Harold ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 0034088816     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0602.000208     Document Type: Article

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