Genetic diversity of PCR-Positive, culture-negative and culture-positive Mycobacterium ulcerans isolated from Buruli ulcer patients in Ghana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Williamson, Heather ^a   Phillips, Richard ^b   Sarfo, Stephen ^b   Wansbrough Jones, Mark ^c   Small, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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

^c ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURULI ULCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PSEUDOSHOTTSII; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUNCH BIOPSY; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BIOPSY; BURULI ULCER; GENETIC VARIATION; GHANA; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84895769350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088007     Document Type: Article

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