Associations Between Mycobacterium ulcerans and Aquatic Plant Communities of West Africa: Implications for Buruli Ulcer Disease

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  EcoHealth

• Publication date

  2014-01-18

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10393-013-0898-3PMID 24442959
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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