External quality assurance for the laboratory diagnosis of Buruli ulcer disease in Ghana

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1688-1693

  Bretzel, G ^a,b   Siegmund, V ^a,b   Nitschke, J ^b   Herbinger, K H ^a   Thompson, R ^b   Fleischmann, E ^a   Fleischer, B ^b   Adjei, O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Buruli ulcer diagnosis; Ghana; Microscopy; PCR; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BURULI ULCER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GHANA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GHANA; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33750287177     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01722.x     Document Type: Article

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