Dry-reagent-based PCR as a novel tool for laboratory confirmation of clinically diagnosed Mycobacterium ulcerans-associated disease in areas in the tropics where M. ulcerans is endemic

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 271-276

  Siegmund, V ^a   Adjei, O ^b   Racz, P ^a   Berberich, C ^b   Klutse, E ^c   Van Vloten, F ^a   Kruppa, T ^b   Fleischer, B ^a   Bretzel, G ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^c Dunkwa Government Hospital   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PLASMID DNA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURULI ULCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PILOT STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; TROPICS;

ENDEMIC DISEASES; FREEZE DRYING; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 11844296089     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.1.271-276.2005     Document Type: Article

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