First isolation of Mycobacterium ulcerans from an aquatic environment: The end of a 60-year search?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Stinear, Tim ^a   Johnson, Paul D R ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN;

AFRICA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURULI ULCER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOSQUITO; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWAMP; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HEMIPTERA; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 48949118022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000216     Document Type: Note

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