Review Article
Clinical and Laboratory Diagnosis of Buruli Ulcer Disease: A Systematic Review
Table 1
Summary of types of specimen and transport media for BU diagnosis.
| Materials for diagnosis | Types | Country of origin | Reference |
| Specimen | Swabs | Ghana | Yeboah-Manu et al. [26]; de Souza et al. [27] | Togo | Bretzel et al. [28] | Punch biopsy | Ghana | de Souza et al. [27]; Phillips et al. [29] | Australia | O’Brien et al. [30] | Togo | Bretzel et al. [28] | Benin | Ruf et al. [31] | Biopsy | Ghana | Stienstra et al. [32] | Fine needle aspirate | Ghana | Ablordey et al. [33]; Yeboah-Manu et al. [26] | Togo | Bretzel et al. [28] | Benin | Eddyani et al. [19] | Whole bone or curetted bone samples | Ghana | Herbinger et al. [17]; Bretzel et al. [24] |
| Transport media | Modified Dubos medium (P5 medium) | Ghana | Stienstra et al. [32]; Yeboah-Manu et al., [34] | Liquid Middlebrook 7H9 broth | Benin | Eddyani et al. [19]; Dobos et al. [35]; | 10% OADC augmented with PANTA | Ghana | Wansbrough-Jones and Phillips [9] | Solid transport media (STM) | Benin | Eddyani et al. [19] | Liquid Nitrogen | Ghana | Rondini et al. [21]; Beissner et al. [36] |
| Decontamination methods | Oxalic acid | Ghana | Mensah-Quainoo et al. [37]; Yeboah-Manu et al. [34] | N-Acetyl-cysteine-NaOH technique | Ghana | Schunk et al. [8] | Reversed Petroff technique | Ghana | O’Brien et al. [30] | Benin | Eddyani et al. [19] |
| DNA extraction method | Commercial | Ghana | de Souza et al. [27] | In-house | Ghana | Ablordey et al. [33] | Modified Boom DNA extraction procedure | Ghana | Durnez et al. [38]; Affolabi et al. [39] | Commercial Maxwell 16 DNA extraction | Ghana | Affolabi et al. [39] | One tube cell lysis (OT) | Ghana | Durnez et al. [38] | FastPrep procedure | Ghana | Durnez et al. [38] |
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