Mycobacteria causing human cervical lymphadenitis in pastoral communities in the Karamoja region of Uganda

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 636-643

  Oloya, J ^a,b   Opuda Asibo, J ^a   Kazwala, R ^c   Demelash, A B ^d   Skjerve, Eystein ^b   Lund, A ^e   Johansen, T B ^e   Djonne, B ^e  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^d Debub University   (Ethiopia)

^e NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RISK; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; MEAT; MILK; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; UGANDA; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RURAL POPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE; UGANDA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 41549111113     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807009004     Document Type: Article

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