title: Short report: Clinical and molecular evidence for a case of Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) in Kenya.
abstract: Mycobacterium ulcerans infection is an emerging disease that causes indolent, necrotizing skin lesions known as Buruli ulcer (BU) and occasional contiguous or metastatic bone lesions. Buruli ulcer is named after Buruli County in Uganda (east Africa), where an epidemic occurred in the 1960s. Today, BU is most common in central and west Africa. We describe clinical and molecular evidence for a case of BU in Kenya.
authors.affiliation: Kenya Medical Research Institute-Walter Reed Project, United States Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya, Kisumu, Kenya. douglas.s.walsh@us.army.mil
authors.forename: Douglas S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: Fredrick
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Eyase
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Onyango
authors.forename: Alfred
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Odindo
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Otieno
authors.forename: John N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Waitumbi
authors.forename: Wallace D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Bulimo
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Schnabel
authors.forename: Wayne M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Meyers
authors.forename: Françoise
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Portaels
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001483:Base Sequence; D054312:Buruli Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya / Q000453:epidemiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019911:Mycobacterium ulcerans / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial