Persistent association of Mycobacterium ulcerans with West African predaceous insects of the family belostomatidae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 7036-7042

  Mosi, Lydia ^a   Williamson, Heather ^a   Wallace, John R ^b   Merritt, Richard W ^c   Small, P L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; AQUATIC INSECTS; ETIOLOGICAL AGENTS; FUNCTIONAL FEEDING GROUPS; HEMIPTERA; INFECTION MODELS; MOSQUITO LARVAS; PCR DETECTIONS; SALIVARY GLANDS; TROPHIC TRANSFERS;

ECOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; INSECT; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BURULI ULCER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEAD; INSECT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE; LARVA; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVARY GLAND; SKIN DISEASE; THORAX;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; HETEROPTERA; LARVA; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BELOSTOMATIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 55949096572     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01234-08     Document Type: Article

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