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Buruli ulcer en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A type of ulcer caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans.
   • 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. 2005, Avi Shai, Howard I. Maibach, Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin: Diagnosis and Therapy - The Practical Approach, Springer, page 55:
   • 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. 2004, Eldryd Parry, Richard Godfrey, Geoffrey Gill, David Mabey, editors, Principles of Medicine in Africa, Cambridge University Press, page 1302:
   • 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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Translations (7)

it ulcera del Searle (type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans) · it ulcera del Bairnsdale (type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans) · fr ulcère de Buruli (type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans) · de Buruli-Ulkus (type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans) · ja ブルーリ潰瘍 (type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans) · it ulcera del Buruli (type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans) · it ulcera del Daintree (type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans)