Detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans subsp. shinshuense DNA from a water channel in familial Buruli ulcer cases in Japan

Future Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 461-469

  Luo, Yuqian ^a   Degang, Yang ^a   Ohtsuka, Mikio ^b,c   Ishido, Yuko ^a   Ishii, Norihisa ^a   Suzuki, Koichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

aquatic environment; Buruli ulcer; crayfish; familial concurrent occurrence of BU in Japan; Mycobacterium ulcerans subsp. shinshuense; vector

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA; WATER;

ADULT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BURULI ULCER; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CRAYFISH; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; ANIMAL; FAMILY HEALTH; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASON;

ASTACOIDEA; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; BURULI ULCER; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FAMILY HEALTH; HUMANS; JAPAN; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84927741190     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.14.152     Document Type: Article

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