Implementation of a national reference laboratory for Buruli ulcer disease in Togo.

• Main Authors: Marcus Beissner (Author), Kristina Lydia Huber (Author), Kossi Badziklou (Author), Wemboo Afiwa Halatoko (Author), Issaka Maman (Author), Felix Vogel (Author), Bawimodom Bidjada (Author), Koffi Somenou Awoussi (Author), Ebekalisai Piten (Author), Kerstin Helfrich (Author), Carolin Mengele (Author), Jörg Nitschke (Author), Komi Amekuse (Author), Franz Xaver Wiedemann (Author), Adolf Diefenhardt (Author), Basile Kobara (Author), Karl-Heinz Herbinger (Author), Abiba Banla Kere (Author), Mireille Prince-David (Author), Thomas Löscher (Author), Gisela Bretzel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: In a previous study PCR analysis of clinical samples from suspected cases of Buruli ulcer disease (BUD) from Togo and external quality assurance (EQA) for local microscopy were conducted at an external reference laboratory in Germany. The relatively poor performance of local microscopy a...