Efficiency of fine-needle aspiration compared with other sampling techniques for laboratory diagnosis of Buruli ulcer disease

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3732-3734

  Herbinger, Karl Heinz ^a   Beissner, Marcus ^a   Huber, Kristina ^a   Awua Boateng, Nana Yaa ^b   Nitschke, Jörg ^a,g   Thompson, William ^c   Klutse, Erasmus ^d   Agbenorku, Pius ^e   Assiobo, Awovi ^f   Piten, Ebekalisai ^f   Wiedemann, Franz ^g   Fleischmann, Erna ^a   Helfrich, Kerstin ^a   Adjei, Ohene ^b   Löscher, Thomas ^a   Bretzel, Gisela ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^c Agogo Presbyterian Hospital   (Ghana)

^d Dunkwa Governmental Hospital   (Ghana)

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

^f Centre Hospitalier Régionale Tsévié CHR   (Togo)

^g Klinikum der Ludwig Maximilians Universität München   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BURULI ULCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BURULI ULCER; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 77957776227     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01549-10     Document Type: Article

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