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Spatial Distribution of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Buruli Ulcer Lesions: Implications for Laboratory Diagnosis

BACKGROUND: Current laboratory diagnosis of Buruli ulcer (BU) is based on microscopic detection of acid fast bacilli, quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR), histopathology or cultivation. Insertion sequence (IS) 2404 qPCR, the most sensitive method, is usually only available at reference laboratories. T...

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Autores principales: Ruf, Marie-Thérèse, Bolz, Miriam, Vogel, Moritz, Bayi, Pierre F., Bratschi, Martin W., Sopho, Ghislain Emmanuel, Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy, Um Boock, Alphonse, Junghanss, Thomas, Pluschke, Gerd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4890796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27253422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004767