Short report: Clinical and molecular evidence for a case of Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) in Kenya

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2009 Dec;81(6):1110-3. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0313.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Base Sequence
  • Buruli Ulcer / diagnosis*
  • Buruli Ulcer / epidemiology
  • Buruli Ulcer / pathology
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kenya / epidemiology
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mycobacterium ulcerans / isolation & purification*
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial