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

• Hauptverfasser: Fred Stephen Sarfo (Verfasst von), Paul J Converse (Verfasst von), Deepak V Almeida (Verfasst von), Jihui Zhang (Verfasst von), Clive Robinson (Verfasst von), Mark Wansbrough-Jones (Verfasst von), Jacques H Grosset (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...