Buruli ulcer is caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, 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.
BT - The Lancet. Infectious diseases C1 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29605497?dopt=Abstract
DO - 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30186-5 IS - 6 J2 - Lancet Infect Dis LA - eng N2 -Buruli ulcer is caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, 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.
PY - 2018 EP - 588–589 T2 - The Lancet. Infectious diseases TI - Surgery for Buruli ulcer in the antibiotic era. VL - 18 SN - 1474-4457 ER -