Profiling Mycobacterium ulcerans with hsp65 [5]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1795-1796

  Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ^a   Sampaio, Jorge Luiz Mello ^a   Martin, Anandi ^b   Palomino, Juan Carlos ^b   Portaels, Françoise ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 65;

ANIMAL CELL; BURULI ULCER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 27744432292     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1111.050234     Document Type: Letter

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