Nineteen cases of Buruli ulcer diagnosed in Japan from 1980 to 2010

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3829-3836

  Nakanaga, Kazue ^a   Hoshino, Yoshihiko ^a   Yotsu, Rie Roselyne ^b   Makino, Masahiko ^a   Ishii, Norihisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFCAPENE PIVOXIL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; GARENOXACIN; GATIFLOXACIN; ISONIAZID; ITRACONAZOLE; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; NORFLOXACIN; PAZUFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN;

16S RRNA GENE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURULI ULCER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EXCISION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIMB; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PSEUDOSHOTTSII; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RPOB GENE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BURULI ULCER; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PSEUDOSHOTTSII; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 80355126259     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00783-11     Document Type: Article

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