Pathways of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection: A review

Environment International

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 567-573

  Duker, Alfred A ^a,b   Portaels, Francoise ^c   Hale, Martin ^b  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Controls; Environments; Immunosuppression; Mycobacterium ulcerans; Toxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CONTROLS; ENVIRONMENTS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIUM;

DISEASES;

BCG VACCINE;

DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNGUS; MICROBIOLOGY; SKIN; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL REGION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BURULI ULCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEREDITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LAKE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROPREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWAMP; VOLCANO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 33645965884     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2006.01.002     Document Type: Review

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