Short report: Clinical and molecular evidence for a case of Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) in Kenya.
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.
Walsh
Douglas S
DS
Kenya Medical Research Institute-Walter Reed Project, United States Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya, Kisumu, Kenya. douglas.s.walsh@us.army.mil
Eyase
Fredrick
F
Onyango
David
D
Odindo
Alfred
A
Otieno
Walter
W
Waitumbi
John N
JN
Bulimo
Wallace D
WD
Schnabel
David C
DC
Meyers
Wayne M
WM
Portaels
Françoise
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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
D004269:DNA, Bacterial