Buruli ulcer disease prevalence in Benin, West Africa: associations with land use/cover and the identification of disease clusters

BACKGROUND: Buruli ulcer (BU) disease, caused by infection with the environmental mycobacterium M. ulcerans, is an emerging infectious disease in many tropical and sub-tropical countries. Although vectors and modes of transmission remain unknown, it is hypothesized that the transmission of BU diseas...

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Autores principales: Wagner, Tyler, Benbow, M Eric, Brenden, Travis O, Qi, Jiaguo, Johnson, R Christian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18505567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-7-25

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