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Domestic animals infected with Mycobacterium ulcerans—Implications for transmission to humans

BACKGROUND: The environmental pathogen, Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU) can infect both humans and animals and cause Buruli ulcer (BU) disease. However, its mode(s) of transmission from the colonized environment to human/animal hosts remain unclear. In Australia, MU can infect both wildlife and domestic...

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Autores principales: Djouaka, Rousseau, Zeukeng, Francis, Bigoga, Jude Daiga, Kakou-Ngazoa, Solange E., Akoton, Romaric, Tchigossou, Genevieve, Coulibaly, David N’golo, Tchebe, Sodjinin Jean-Eudes, Aboubacar, Sylla, Nguepdjo, Clavella Nantcho, Tossou, Eric, Adeoti, Razack, Ngo Nsonga, Thèrèse Marie, Akpo, Yao, Djegbe, Innocent, Tamo, Manuele, Mbacham, Wilfred Fon, Ablordey, Anthony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6044547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29965961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006572