New foci of buruli ulcer, Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1790-1792

  Kibadi, Kapay ^a,b,c   Panda, Mbutu ^b   Tamfum, Jean Jacques Muyembe ^c   Fraga, Alexandra G ^d   Longatto Filho, Adhemar ^d   Anyo, Gladys ^a   Pedrosa, Jorge ^d   Nakazawa, Yoshinori ^e   Suykerbuyk, Patrick ^a   Meyers, Wayne M ^f   Portaels, Françoise ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^c Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Congo)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^f ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGOLA; ARTICLE; BURULI ULCER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; RISK FACTOR; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; BIOPSY; BURULI ULCER; CONGO; DIAMOND; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINING; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; RIFAMPIN; RISK FACTORS; RIVERS; SKIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55549144363     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1411.071649     Document Type: Article

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