A major role for mammals in the ecology of Mycobacterium ulcerans

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Fyfe, Janet A M ^a   Lavender, Caroline J ^a   Handasyde, Kathrine A ^b   Legione, Alistair R ^b   O'Brien, Carolyn R ^b   Stinear, Timothy P ^a,b   Pidot, Sacha J ^b   Seemann, Torsten ^c   Benbow, M Eric ^d   Wallace, John R ^e   McCowan, Christina ^b   Johnson, Paul D R ^a,f  

^a VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^e MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; WATER;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL HUNTING; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BRUSHTAIL POSSUM; BURULI ULCER; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RINGTAIL POSSUM; SEDIMENT; SKIN DEFECT; SOIL; VEGETATION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; TRICHOSURUS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BURULI ULCER; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FECES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; TRICHOSURUS;

EID: 78149275357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000791     Document Type: Article

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