Secondary Bacterial Infections of Buruli Ulcer Lesions Before and After Chemotherapy with Streptomycin and Rifampicin

Buruli ulcer (BU), caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans is a chronic necrotizing skin disease. It usually starts with a subcutaneous nodule or plaque containing large clusters of extracellular acid-fast bacilli. Surrounding tissue is destroyed by the cytotoxic macrolide toxin mycolactone produced by mic...

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Main Authors: Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy, Kpeli, Grace S., Ruf, Marie-Thérèse, Asan-Ampah, Kobina, Quenin-Fosu, Kwabena, Owusu-Mireku, Evelyn, Paintsil, Albert, Lamptey, Isaac, Anku, Benjamin, Kwakye-Maclean, Cynthia, Newman, Mercy, Pluschke, Gerd
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3642065/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23658847
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002191
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