A Genomic Approach to Resolving Relapse versus Reinfection among Four Cases of Buruli Ulcer.

• Main Authors: Miriam Eddyani (Author), Koen Vandelannoote (Author), Conor J Meehan (Author), Sabin Bhuju (Author), Jessica L Porter (Author), Julia Aguiar (Author), Torsten Seemann (Author), Michael Jarek (Author), Mahavir Singh (Author), Françoise Portaels (Author), Timothy P Stinear (Author), Bouke C de Jong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Increased availability of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques allows, for the first time, to distinguish relapses from reinfections in patients with multiple Buruli ulcer (BU) episodes. METHODOLOGY:We compared the number and location of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) ident...