What does detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans DNA in the margin of an excised Buruli ulcer lesion tell us?

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4273-4275

  Rondini, Simona ^a,d   Mensah Quainoo, Ernestina ^b   Junghanss, Thomas ^c   Pluschke, Gerd ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURULI ULCER; CASE REPORT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; SKIN ULCER;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 33750948431     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00970-06     Document Type: Article

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