Comparative study of the sensitivity of different diagnostic methods for the laboratory diagnosis of buruli ulcer disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1055-1064

  Herbinger, Karl Heinz ^a   Adjei, Ohene ^c   Awua Boateng, Nana Yaa ^c   Nienhuis, Willemien A ^g   Kunaa, Letitia ^c   Siegmund, Vera ^a   Nitschke, Jörg ^a,b   Thompson, William ^e   Klutse, Erasmus ^f   Agbenorku, Pius ^d   Schipf, Alexander ^a,h   Reu, Simone ^a   Racz, Paul ^b   Fleischer, Bernhard ^b   Beissner, Marcus ^a   Fleischmann, Erna ^a   Helfrich, Kerstin ^a   Van Der Werf, Tjip S ^g   Löscher, Thomas ^a   Bretzel, Gisela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^d KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^e Agogo Presbyterian Hospital   (Ghana)

^f Dunkwa Governmental Hospital   (Ghana)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^h Pathologische Institut am Kantonsspital Luzern   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURULI ULCER; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BURULI ULCER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63649096544     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597398     Document Type: Article

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