Bi Goré Oscar Tchan, Solange Ngazoa-Kakou, Nguetta Aka, N’Chouo Kouamé Basile Apia, Nassim Hammoudi, Michel Drancourt, Jamal Saad,
Mycobacterium ulcerans, an environmental opportunistic pathogen, causes necrotic cutaneous and subcutaneous lesions, named Buruli ulcers, in tropical countries. PCR-derived tests used to detect M. ulcerans in environmental and clinical samples do not allow one-shot detection, identification, and typing of M. ulcerans among closely related Mycobacterium marinum complex mycobacteria. We established a 385-member M. marinum/M. ulcerans complex whole-genome sequence database by assembling and annotating ...
Tópico(s): Infectious Diseases and Mycology
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