The mycetoma knowledge gap: identification of research priorities.

• Main Authors: Wendy W J van de Sande (Author), El Sheikh Maghoub (Author), Ahmed H Fahal (Author), Michael Goodfellow (Author), Oliverio Welsh (Author), Ed Zijlstra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mycetoma is a tropical disease which is caused by a taxonomically diverse range of actinomycetes (actinomycetoma) and fungi (eumycetoma). The disease was only recently listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a neglected tropical disease (NTD). This recognition is the direct result of a meet...