Sero-epidemiology as a tool to screen populations for exposure to Mycobacterium ulcerans

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Yeboah Manu, Dorothy ^a   Röltgen, Katharina ^b,c   Opare, William ^d   Asan Ampah, Kobina ^a   Quenin Fosu, Kwabena ^a   Asante Poku, Adwoa ^a   Ampadu, Edwin ^d   Fyfe, Janet ^e   Koram, Kwadwo ^a   Ahorlu, Collins ^a   Pluschke, Gerd ^b,c  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d National Buruli Ulcer Control Programme   (Ghana)

^e VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BURULI ULCER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GHANA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BURULI ULCER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856571178     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001460     Document Type: Article

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