Keywords:
Bacterial diseases
Buruli ulcer
Mycobacterium ulcerans
Clinical manifestations
Molecular conformation
Skin lesions
Ziehl-Neelsen's stain
Polymerase chain reaction
PCR
Primers
DNA amplification
DNA sequence analysis
Laboratory techniques and procedures
Kenya
Africa, East
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.