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Introduction of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease in the Bankim Health District of Cameroon follows damming of the Mape River.
Buruli ulcer (BU) is an emerging ulcerative skin disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans. Efforts to control its spread have been hampered by our limited understanding of M. ulcerans reservoirs and transmission, and the factors leading to the emergence of BU disease in...
Introduction of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease in the Bankim Health District of Cameroon follows damming of the Mape River.
Yaws resurgence in Bankim, Cameroon: The relative effectiveness of different means of detection in rural communities
Yaws is an infectious, debilitating and disfiguring disease of poverty that mainly affects children
in rural communities in tropical areas. In Cameroon, mass-treatment campaigns carried
out in the 1950s reduced yaws to such low levels that it was presumed the...
Buruli Ulcer in Cameroon: The Development and Impact of the National Control Programme
Cameroon is endemic for Buruli ulcer (BU) and organised institutional BU control began in 2002. The objective was to describe the evolution, achievements and challenges of the national BU control programme (NBUCP) and to make suggestions for scaling up the programme...
Buruli Ulcer in Cameroon: The Development and Impact of the National Control Programme
Locally Confined Clonal Complexes of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Two Buruli Ulcer Endemic Regions of Cameroon
Mycobacterium ulcerans is the causative agent of the necrotizing skin disease Buruli ulcer (BU), which has been reported from over 30 countries worldwide. The majority of notified patients come from West African countries, such as Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Benin and Cameroon...
Locally Confined Clonal Complexes of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Two Buruli Ulcer Endemic Regions of Cameroon