Buruli ulcer

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Etymology

Named after a county of Uganda where important foci of the disease were studied.

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Buruli ulcer (plural Buruli ulcers)

  1. (pathology) A type of ulcer caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans.
    • 2004, Eldryd Parry, Richard Godfrey, Geoffrey Gill, David Mabey, editors, Principles of Medicine in Africa, Cambridge University Press, page 1302:
      All of these farming activities were in swampy riverine areas, as has been observed in all other foci where Buruli ulcer is endemic (van der Werf et al., 1999; van Oye & Ballio, 1950). […] In Australia, people living near a golf course, that was sprinkled by water pumped from a swamp, developed Buruli ulcers.
    • 2005, Avi Shai, Howard I. Maibach, Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin: Diagnosis and Therapy - The Practical Approach, Springer, page 55:
      Other infectious processes, such as tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterium infections (Fig. 5.1), or Buruli ulcers should be considered, depending on the circumstances and clinical findings.
    • 2006, WHO Regional Office for Africa, The Health of the People: The African Regional Health Report, World Health Organization, page 56,
      Neglected diseases — such as sleeping sickness, visceral leishmaniasis and Buruli ulcer — continue to take their toll in the African Region, but they no longer figure on the disease-control agenda of the developed world.

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