Short report: Clinical and molecular evidence for a case of Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) in Kenya

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1110-1113

  Walsh, Douglas S ^a   Eyase, Fredrick ^a   Onyango, David ^a   Odindo, Alfred ^a   Otieno, Walter ^a   Waitumbi, John N ^a   Bulimo, Wallace D ^b   Schnabel, David C ^b,c   Meyers, Wayne M ^d   Portaels, Françoise ^e  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c Walter Reed Project   (Kenya)

^d ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURULI ULCER; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXUDATE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; KENYA; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN DEFECT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; BURULI ULCER; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 73949157169     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0313     Document Type: Article

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