Terrestrial small mammals as reservoirs of mycobacterium ulcerans in Benin

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 4574-4577

  Durnez, Lies ^a,b   Suykerbuyk, Patrick ^b   Nicolas, Violaine ^c   Barrière, Patrick ^d,e   Verheyen, Erik ^f   Johnson, Christian R ^g   Leirs, Herwig ^a,h   Portaels, Françoise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d CREG AICA ^*  (New Caledonia)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^f ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^g Programme National de Lutte Contre l'Ulcère de Buruli   (South Africa)

^h Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

CAUSATIVE AGENTS; SMALL MAMMALS;

MAMMALS;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PATHOGEN; SMALL MAMMAL;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 77954298759     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00199-10     Document Type: Article

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