Laboratory-confirmed case of yaws in a 10-year-old boy from the Republic of the Congo

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4013-4015

  Pillay, Allan ^a   Chen, Cheng Yen ^a   Reynolds, Mary G ^b   Mombouli, Jean V ^c   Castro, Arnold C ^a   Louvouezo, Davy ^d   Steiner, Bret ^a   Ballard, Ronald C ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c National Laboratory   (Congo)

^d NONE   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE PLUS ARTESUNATE; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CRYSTAL VIOLET; PARACETAMOL;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILL; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEVER; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALARIA; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MONKEYPOX; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUSTULE; RASH; REAGIN TEST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SORE THROAT; TANDEM REPEAT; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YAWS;

CHILD; CONGO; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YAWS;

TREPONEMA PALLIDUM SUBSP. PERTENUE;

EID: 80355145036     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01121-11     Document Type: Article

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