Spatial Distribution of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Buruli Ulcer Lesions: Implications for Laboratory Diagnosis

• Marie-Thérèse Ruf,

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Miriam Bolz,

  Current address: Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Moritz Vogel,

  Affiliation Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Pierre F. Bayi,

  Affiliation Fairmed, Bureau Régional pour l’Afrique, B.P. 5807, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Martin W. Bratschi,

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Ghislain Emmanuel Sopho,

  Affiliation Centre de Depistage et de Traitement de l'Ulcere de Buruli d'Allada, Allada, Benin

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• Dorothy Yeboah-Manu,

  Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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• Alphonse Um Boock,

  Affiliation Fairmed, Bureau Régional pour l’Afrique, B.P. 5807, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Thomas Junghanss,

  Affiliation Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Gerd Pluschke

  * E-mail: gerd.pluschke@unibas.ch

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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