Laboratory confirmation of Buruli ulcer disease in Togo, 2007-2010.

• Main Authors: Gisela Bretzel (Author), Kristina Lydia Huber (Author), Basil Kobara (Author), Marcus Beissner (Author), Ebekalisai Piten (Author), Karl-Heinz Herbinger (Author), Franz Xaver Wiedemann (Author), Komi Amekuse (Author), Abiba Banla Kere (Author), Kerstin Helfrich (Author), Erna Fleischmann (Author), Thomas Löscher (Author), Adolf Diefenhardt (Author), Jörg Nitschke (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Since the early 1990s more than 1,800 patients with lesions suspicious for Buruli ulcer disease (BUD) have been reported from Togo. However, less than five percent of these were laboratory confirmed. Since 2007, the Togolese National Buruli Ulcer Control Program has been supported by the...