[Diagnostic image (325). A traveller with a chronic wound].
A 43-year-old man with a chronic leg ulcer was diagnosed with Buruli-ulcer, caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, probably contracted in Australia.
Goldschmidt
W F M
WF
Academisch Medisch Centrum/Universiteit van Amsterdam, afd. Huidziekten, Postbus 22.660, 1100 DD Amsterdam. w.f.goldschmidt@amc.uva.nl
Faber
W R
WR
D000328:Adult; D000351:Africa, Eastern; D001315:Australia; D006801:Humans; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D019911:Mycobacterium ulcerans / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014195:Travel; D016896:Treatment Outcome