00966nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001653001900042653001700061653003900078653001200117100001700129245005200146300001400198490000700212520056300219022001400782       2018                            d10aAntibiotic era10aBuruli ulcer10aNeglected tropical diseases (NTDs)10aSurgery1 aJohnson PD R00aSurgery for Buruli ulcer in the antibiotic era.  a588–5890 v183 a<p>Buruli ulcer is caused by <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em>, a toxin-producing environmental pathogen. The infection is acquired by otherwise healthy people who live in Buruli-endemic locations that are not necessarily fixed in space or time. For example, Buruli ulcer is now rare in the Nakasongola district (formerly known as Buruli County) of central Uganda, where it was prevalent in the 1960s but, from the early 1980s, new epidemics of Buruli ulcer have occurred in several countries in west and central Africa, and since the 1990s in Australia.</p>
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