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

• Автори: Gisela Bretzel (Автор), Kristina Lydia Huber (Автор), Basil Kobara (Автор), Marcus Beissner (Автор), Ebekalisai Piten (Автор), Karl-Heinz Herbinger (Автор), Franz Xaver Wiedemann (Автор), Komi Amekuse (Автор), Abiba Banla Kere (Автор), Kerstin Helfrich (Автор), Erna Fleischmann (Автор), Thomas Löscher (Автор), Adolf Diefenhardt (Автор), Jörg Nitschke (Автор)
• Формат: Книга
• Опубліковано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...