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A DNA sequence capture extraction method for detection of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in feces and tissue samples

scientific article published on 20 January 2007

A Genomic Approach to Resolving Relapse versus Reinfection among Four Cases of Buruli Ulcer.

scientific article published on 30 November 2015

A comparison of DNA extraction procedures for the detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer, in clinical and environmental specimens

scientific article published on 17 October 2008

A microplate indicator-based method for determining the susceptibility of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antimicrobial agents.

scientific article published in December 2004

A new rapid and simple colorimetric method to detect pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using nicotinamide.

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A pilot study of treatment of Buruli ulcer with rifampin and dapsone

A pivotal registration phase III, multicenter, randomized tuberculosis controlled trial: design issues and lessons learnt from the Gatifloxacin for TB (OFLOTUB) project

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African 1, an epidemiologically important clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis dominant in Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad

scientific article published on 09 January 2009

African 2, a Clonal Complex of Mycobacterium bovis Epidemiologically Important in East Africa

scientific article published in 2012

African 2, a clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis epidemiologically important in East Africa

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Amoebae as Potential Environmental Hosts for Mycobacterium ulcerans and Other Mycobacteria, but Doubtful Actors in Buruli Ulcer Epidemiology

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Analysis of Mycobacterium species for the presence of a macrolide toxin, mycolactone

scientific article published in January 2004

Application of real-time PCR in Ghana, a Buruli ulcer-endemic country, confirms the presence of Mycobacterium ulcerans in the environment

scientific article published on 18 January 2010

Application of the hsp65 PRA method for the rapid identification of mycobacteria isolated from clinical samples in Belgium.

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Application of the resazurin microtitre assay for detection of multidrug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Algiers

scientific article published on July 2006

Aquatic insects and Mycobacterium ulcerans: an association relevant to Buruli ulcer control?

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Assessment of population structure and major circulating phylogeographical clades of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Bangladesh suggests a high prevalence of a specific subclade of ancient M. tuberculosis genotypes

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Association between haemoglobin variants S and C and Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer): a case-control study in Benin

scientific article published in April 2007

Association of HIV infection and Mycobacterium ulcerans disease in Benin

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

BCG vaccine effectiveness against Buruli ulcer: a case-control study in Benin.

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Bacterial diversity in Buruli ulcer skin lesions: Challenges in the clinical microbiome analysis of a skin disease

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Beninese Medicinal Plants as a Source of Antimycobacterial Agents: Bioguided Fractionation and In Vitro Activity of Alkaloids Isolated from Holarrhena floribunda Used in Traditional Treatment of Buruli Ulcer

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Burden of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer) and the underreporting ratio in the territory of Songololo, Democratic Republic of Congo

scientific article published in 2013

Buruli Ulcer: Advances in Understanding Mycobacterium ulcerans Infection ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Buruli ulcer

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Buruli ulcer (M. ulcerans infection): new insights, new hope for disease control

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Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection).

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Buruli ulcer disease in Cameroon rediscovered.

scientific article published in May 2004

Buruli ulcer disease: prospects for a vaccine

scientific article published on 07 February 2009

Buruli ulcer distribution in Benin

scientific article published on March 2005

Buruli ulcer in United Kingdom tourist returning from Latin America

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Buruli ulcer in West Africa: strategies for early detection and treatment in the antibiotic era.

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Buruli ulcer in traveler from Suriname, South America, to the Netherlands

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Buruli ulcer lesions in HIV-positive patient

scientific article published on April 2010

Buruli ulcer prevalence and altitude, Benin.

scientific article published on January 2011

Buruli ulcer recurrence, Benin

scientific article published in April 2005

Buruli ulcer surveillance, Benin, 2003-2005.

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Buruli ulcer, Central African Republic

scientific article published on April 2010

Buruli ulcer, Nigeria

scientific article published on May 2007

Buruli ulcer: a review of in vitro tests to screen natural products for activity against Mycobacterium ulcerans

scientific article published on 14 January 2011

Buruli ulcer: a systemic disease.

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Cellular immunity confers transient protection in experimental Buruli ulcer following BCG or mycolactone-negative Mycobacterium ulcerans vaccination

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Characterization of Mycobacterium chelonae-Like Strains by Comparative Genomics.

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Clinical and histologic features of skin lesions in a cynomolgus monkey experimentally infected with mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer) by intradermal inoculation

scientific article published in January 2007

Colorimetric redox-indicator methods for the rapid detection of multidrug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 28 November 2006

Comparative evaluation of the nitrate reduction assay, the MTT test, and the resazurin microtitre assay for drug susceptibility testing of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Comparative intradermal tuberculin test in dairy cattle in the north of Ecuador and risk factors associated with bovine tuberculosis

scientific article published in December 2009

Comparative nucleotide sequence analysis of polymorphic variable-number tandem-repeat Loci in Mycobacterium ulcerans

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Correction: Buruli Ulcer (M. ulcerans Infection): New Insights, New Hope for Disease Control

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Correction: Whole Genome Comparisons Suggest Random Distribution of Mycobacterium ulcerans Genotypes in a Buruli Ulcer Endemic Region of Ghana

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Diagnostic Accuracy of Clinical and Microbiological Signs in Patients With Skin Lesions Resembling Buruli Ulcer in an Endemic Region

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA and rifampin resistance in clinical specimens from tuberculosis patients by line probe assay.

scientific article published on 11 October 2006

Disseminated Mycobacterium ulcerans disease in an HIV-positive patient: a case study

scientific article published in August 2002

Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes circulating in Ndola, Zambia

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Effect of a control project on clinical profiles and outcomes in buruli ulcer: a before/after study in Bas-Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo

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Effects of decontamination, DNA extraction, and amplification procedures on the molecular diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer)

scientific article published on 18 January 2012

Effects of grinding surgical tissue specimens and smear staining methods on Buruli ulcer microscopic diagnosis

scientific article published in February 2008

Endogenous reactivation and true treatment failure as causes of recurrent tuberculosis in a high incidence setting with a low HIV infection

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Environmental and health-related risk factors for Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer) in Benin.

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Epidemiology of antituberculosis drug resistance (the Global Project on Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance): an updated analysis

scientific article published in December 2006

European 1: a globally important clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis

scientific article published on 6 May 2011

Evaluation of direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis rifampin resistance by a nitrate reductase assay applied to sputum samples in Cotonou, Benin

scientific article published on 2 May 2007

Evaluation of multiple genetic markers for typing drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from Poland.

scientific article published on 20 February 2006

Evidence for an intramacrophage growth phase of Mycobacterium ulcerans

scientific article published on 4 December 2006

Evolution of Mycobacterium ulcerans and other mycolactone-producing mycobacteria from a common Mycobacterium marinum progenitor

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Evolution of two distinct phylogenetic lineages of the emerging human pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans

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Family relationship, water contact and occurrence of Buruli ulcer in Benin

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Fine-needle aspiration, an efficient sampling technique for bacteriological diagnosis of nonulcerative Buruli ulcer.

scientific article published on 22 April 2009

First case of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer) following a human bite

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First cultivation and characterization of mycobacterium ulcerans from the environment

scientific article published in 2008

First detection of mycobacteria in African rodents and insectivores, using stratified pool screening.

scientific article published on 7 December 2007

First report of a mycolactone-producing Mycobacterium infection in fish agriculture in Belgium

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Fitness of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the W-Beijing and Non-W-Beijing genotype

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Fitness study of the RDRio lineage and Latin American-Mediterranean family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the city of Rio Grande, Brazil

scientific article published on 17 September 2009

Fluoroquinolone resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and mutations in gyrA and gyrB.

scientific article published on 17 August 2009

Genetic diversity and population structure of Mycobacterium marinum: new insights into host and environmental specificities

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Genetic diversity in mycobacterium ulcerans isolates from Ghana revealed by a newly identified locus containing a variable number of tandem repeats

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Genotypic and Phenotypic Heterogeneity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients

scientific article published in February 2005

Genotypic and phenotypic heterogeneity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from pulmonary tuberculosis patients

scientific article published on December 2004

Genotyping Mycobacterium ulcerans and Mycobacterium marinum by using mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units

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Growth kinetics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis measured by quantitative resazurin reduction assay: a tool for fitness studies

scientific article published on April 2010

Heterogeneity among Mycobacterium ulcerans isolates from Africa.

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Heterogeneity of mycolactones produced by clinical isolates of Mycobacterium ulcerans: implications for virulence ⬇️

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High level of cross-resistance between kanamycin, amikacin, and capreomycin among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Georgia and a close relation with mutations in the rrs gene

scientific article published on 14 September 2009

High rates of apoptosis in human Mycobacterium ulcerans culture-positive buruli ulcer skin lesions

scientific article published in August 2005

IS6110 fingerprinting of sensitive and resistant strains (1991-1992) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Colombia

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Implementation of the thin layer agar method for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in a setting with a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus infection in Homa Bay, Kenya

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Implementation validation performed in Rwanda to determine whether the INNO-LiPA Rif.TB line probe assay can be used for detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in low-resource countries

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Improving clinical and epidemiological predictors of Buruli ulcer

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

Infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans induces persistent inflammatory responses in mice.

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Insertion sequence element single nucleotide polymorphism typing provides insights into the population structure and evolution of Mycobacterium ulcerans across Africa

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Investigating the Role of Free-living Amoebae as a Reservoir for Mycobacterium ulcerans

scientific article (publication date: September 2014)

Leprosy and Buruli ulcer: similarities suggest combining control and prevention of disability strategies in countries endemic for both diseases.

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Low Occurrence of Tuberculosis Drug Resistance among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients from an Urban Setting, with a Long-Running DOTS Program in Zambia

scientific article published on 30 June 2010

MODS assay for the diagnosis of TB

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Management of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in a pregnant woman in Benin using rifampicin and clarithromycin.

scientific article published in November 2008

Mixed infection and clonal representativeness of a single sputum sample in tuberculosis patients from a penitentiary hospital in Georgia

scientific article published on 17 July 2006

Molecular diagnosis of nontuberculous mycobacteria ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2003

Molecular evidence to support a proposal to reserve the designation Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium for bird-type isolates and 'M. avium subsp. hominissuis' for the human/porcine type of M. avium

scientific article (publication date: September 2002)

Multicenter evaluation of mycobacteria identification by PCR restriction enzyme analysis in laboratories from Latin America and the Caribbean.

scientific article published on 25 December 2004

Multicenter evaluation of the nitrate reductase assay for drug resistance detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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Multicenter external quality assessment program for PCR detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans in clinical and environmental specimens

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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis control in Rwanda overcomes a successful clone that causes most disease over a quarter century

publication published on 24 January 2022

Multilocus variable-number tandem repeat typing of Mycobacterium ulcerans

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Multiple Introductions and Recent Spread of the Emerging Human Pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans across Africa ⬇️

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Mycobacteria in drinking water distribution systems: ecology and significance for human health.

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Mycobacteria in terrestrial small mammals on cattle farms in Tanzania ⬇️

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Mycobacterium liflandii infection in European colony of Silurana tropicalis

scientific article published on May 2007

Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genetic diversity: mining the fourth international spoligotyping database (SpolDB4) for classification, population genetics and epidemiology

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2006)

Mycobacterium ulcerans Population Genomics To Inform on the Spread of Buruli Ulcer across Central Africa

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer) in a rural hospital in Bas-Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2002-2004.

scientific article published in August 2006

Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer) in rural hospital, Southern Benin, 1997-2001

scientific article published in August 2004

Mycobacterium ulcerans disease, Peru.

scientific article published on March 2008

Mycobacterium ulcerans disease.

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Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer) on the face: a comparative analysis of 13 clinically suspected cases from the Democratic Republic of Congo

scientific article published on December 2011

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection: control, diagnosis, and treatment

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Mycobacterium ulcerans triggers T-cell immunity followed by local and regional but not systemic immunosuppression

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New foci of Buruli ulcer, Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo

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Newly developed primers for comprehensive amplification of the rpoB gene and detection of rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 8 November 2006

Newly developed primers for the detection of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis

scientific article published on June 2004

Nitrate reductase assay for detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: simple and inexpensive method for low-resource laboratories

scientific article published on July 2006

Nitrate reductase assay for the rapid detection of pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using nicotinamide

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Occurrence of free-living amoebae in communities of low and high endemicity for Buruli ulcer in southern Benin

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On the origin of mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of buruli ulcer

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One-tube cell lysis and DNA extraction procedure for PCR-based detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans in aquatic insects, molluscs and fish.

scientific article published on September 2004

Ongoing genome reduction in Mycobacterium ulcerans

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Outcomes after chemotherapy with WHO category II regimen in a population with high prevalence of drug resistant tuberculosis

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PCR amplification with primers based on IS2404 and GC-rich repeated sequence reveals polymorphism in Mycobacterium ulcerans.

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PCR-based genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with new GC-rich repeated sequences and IS6110 inverted repeats used as primers.

scientific article published on January 2004

Pathogenetic mechanisms of the intracellular parasite Mycobacterium ulcerans leading to Buruli ulcer

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Pathways of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection: a review

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Persistence of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli Ulcer) in the historical focus of Kasongo Territory, the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Phenotypic and genotypic methods for detecting multidrug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published in March 2005

Pilot study of treatment of Buruli ulcer with rifampin and dapsone

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Possible outbreak of streptomycin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing in Benin.

scientific article published on July 2009

Post-mortem examination and laboratory-based analysis for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis among dairy cattle in Ecuador.

scientific article published on 8 June 2011

Potential role for fish in transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer): An environmental study

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Preliminary observations on Mycobacterium spp. in dairy cattle in Ecuador.

scientific article published in August 2006

Primary culture of Mycobacterium ulcerans from human tissue specimens after storage in semisolid transport medium

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Profiling Mycobacterium ulcerans with hsp65.

scientific article published in November 2005

Psychosocial aspects of health seeking behaviours of patients with Buruli ulcer in southern Benin

scientific article published in August 2003

Rapid alternative methods for detection of rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 9 June 2004

Rapid and inexpensive detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis with the nitrate reductase assay using liquid medium and direct application to sputum samples

scientific article published on 27 August 2008

Rapid culture-based methods for drug-resistance detection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 25 June 2008

Rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to second-line drugs by use of the manual mycobacterium growth indicator tube system

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Rapid detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Cotonou (Benin) using two low-cost colorimetric methods: resazurin and nitrate reductase assays

scientific article published in August 2008

Rapid detection of ofloxacin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by two low-cost colorimetric methods: resazurin and nitrate reductase assays

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Recent advances in leprosy and Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection).

scientific article published on October 2010

Resazurin microtiter assay plate testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibilities to second-line drugs: rapid, simple, and inexpensive method

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Resazurin microtiter assay plate: simple and inexpensive method for detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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Response to treatment in a prospective cohort of patients with large ulcerated lesions suspected to be Buruli Ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans disease).

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Risk factors for buruli ulcer: a case control study in Cameroon

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Schistosoma haematobium infection and Buruli ulcer

scientific article published on March 2004

Setting up a national reference laboratory for Buruli ulcer: the case of Benin

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Severe multifocal form of buruli ulcer after streptomycin and rifampin treatment: comments on possible dissemination mechanisms.

scientific article published in August 2010

Short report: Clinical and molecular evidence for a case of Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) in Kenya

scientific article published on December 2009

Short report: edematous Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer) on the face: a case report

scientific article published in December 2007

Situation of bovine tuberculosis in Ecuador

scientific article published in September 2011

Subcutaneous Granulomatous Inflammation due to Basidiobolomycosis: Case Reports of 3 Patients in Buruli Ulcer Endemic Areas in Benin.

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Terrestrial small mammals as reservoirs of Mycobacterium ulcerans in benin

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The nitrate reductase assay for the rapid detection of isoniazid and rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 10 April 2008

The prevalence of Mycobacterium bovis-infection and atypical mycobacterioses in cattle in and around Morogoro, Tanzania

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Therapeutic itineraries of patients with ulcerated forms of Mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer) disease in a rural health zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo

scientific article published on 26 June 2009

Thin layer agar compared to BACTEC MGIT 960 for early detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Twenty Years of Global Surveillance of Antituberculosis-Drug Resistance

scientific article published on September 2016

Under treated necrotizing fasciitis masquerading as ulcerated edematous Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer).

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VNTR analysis differentiates Mycobacterium ulcerans and IS2404 positive mycobacteria

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Whole Genome Comparisons Suggest Random Distribution of Mycobacterium ulcerans Genotypes in a Buruli Ulcer Endemic Region of Ghana

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Worldwide emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on March 2007

hsp65 PCR-restriction analysis (PRA) with capillary electrophoresis for species identification and differentiation of Mycobacterium kansasii and Mycobacterium chelonae–Mycobacterium abscessus group ⬇️

scientific article published on January 11, 2012

hsp65 PCR-restriction analysis (PRA) with capillary electrophoresis in comparison to three other methods for identification of Mycobacterium species

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