Microbiological, histological, immunological, and toxin response to antibiotic treatment in the mouse model of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease.

• Main Authors: Fred Stephen Sarfo (Author), Paul J Converse (Author), Deepak V Almeida (Author), Jihui Zhang (Author), Clive Robinson (Author), Mark Wansbrough-Jones (Author), Jacques H Grosset (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mycobacterium ulcerans infection causes a neglected tropical disease known as Buruli ulcer that is now found in poor rural areas of West Africa in numbers that sometimes exceed those reported for another significant mycobacterial disease, leprosy, caused by M. leprae. Unique among mycobacterial dise...