Spatial dependency of Buruli ulcer prevalence on arsenic-enriched domains in Amansie West District, Ghana: implications for arsenic mediation in Mycobacterium ulcerans infection

BACKGROUND: In 1998, the World Health Organization recognized Buruli ulcer (BU), a human skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU), as the third most prevalent mycobacterial disease. In Ghana, there have been more than 2000 reported cases in the last ten years; outbreaks have occurred in at...

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Autores principales: Duker, Alfred A, Carranza, Emmanuel JM, Hale, Martin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC522823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15369592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-3-19

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC522823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15369592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-3-19

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