title: Successful treatment of Mycobacterium ulcerans osteomyelitis with minor surgical debridement and prolonged rifampicin and ciprofloxacin therapy: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Treatment for osteomyelitis-complicating Mycobacterium ulcerans infection typically requires extensive surgery and even amputation, with no reported benefit from adjunctive antibiotics.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a case of an 87-year-old woman with M. ulcerans osteomyelitis that resolved following limited surgical debridement and 6 months of therapy with rifampicin and ciprofloxacin.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  M. ulcerans osteomyelitis can be successfully treated with limited surgical debridement and adjunctive oral antibiotics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, The Geelong Hospital, Geelong, Australia. daniel.obrien@amsterdam.msf.org
authors.forename: Daniel P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: O'Brien
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Athan
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Paul D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Johnson