Short report: Clinical and molecular evidence for a case of Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) in Kenya

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2009
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Walsh, D. S
Eyase, F
Onyango, D.
Odindo, A.
Otieno, W.
Waitumbi, J. N.
Bulimo, W. D
Schnabel, D. C
Meyers, W. M
Portaels, F
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en
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Abstract
Mycobacterium ulcerans infection is an emerging disease that causes indolent, necrotizing skin lesions known as Buruli ulcer (BU) and occasional contiguous or metastatic bone lesions. Buruli ulcer is named after Buruli County in Uganda (east Africa), where an epidemic occurred in the 1960s. Today, BU is most common in central and west Africa. We describe clinical and molecular evidence for a case of BU in Kenya
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http://profiles.uonbi.ac.ke/wallacebulimo/publications/short-report-clinical-and-molecular-evidence-case-buruli-ulcer-mycobact-0
http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/27182
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Short report: Clinical and molecular evidence for a case of Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) in Kenya, Walsh, D. S., Eyase F., Onyango D., Odindo A., Otieno W., Waitumbi J. N., Bulimo W. D., Schnabel D. C., Meyers W. M., and Portaels F. , Am J Trop Med Hyg, Dec, Volume 81, Number 6, p.1110-3, (2009)
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University of Nairobi.
 
College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya
 
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