Published in Health Risk Factor Week, November 14th, 2006
"We identified risk factors for Buruli ulcer (BU) in Benin in an unmatched case-control study at the Centre Sanitaire et Nutritionnel Gbemoten in southern Benin.
"A total of 2,399 persons admitted from 1997 through 2003 and 1,444 unmatched patients with other conditions in 2002 were recruited," scientists writing in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases report.
According to M. Debacker and colleagues at Brussels Free University, "Adjusted odds ratios were determined for age, sex, place of residence, Mycobacterium...
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