Differential Diagnosis of Skin Ulcers in a Mycobacterium ulcerans Endemic Area: Data from a Prospective Study in Cameroon

Toutous Trellu, Laurence Marie; Nkemenang, Patrick; Comte, Eric; Ehounou, Geneviève; Atangana, Paul; Mboua, Didier Junior; Rusch, Barbara; Njih Tabah, Earnest; Etard, Jean-François; Mueller, Yolanda K

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004385

Scientific article

English

Differential Diagnosis of Skin Ulcers in a Mycobacterium ulcerans Endemic Area: Data from a Prospective Study in Cameroon

ContributorsToutous Trellu, Laurence Marie; Nkemenang, Patrick; Comte, Eric; Ehounou, Geneviève; Atangana, Paul; Mboua, Didier Junior; Rusch, Barbara; Njih Tabah, Earnest; Etard, Jean-François; Mueller, Yolanda K

Published inPLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, vol. 10, no. 4, e0004385

Publication date2016

Abstract

Clinical diagnosis of Buruli ulcer (BU) due to Mycobacterium ulcerans can be challenging. We aimed to specify the differential diagnosis of skin lesions in a BU endemic area.

Keywords

Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aged
80 and over
Biopsy
Buruli Ulcer/complications/diagnosis/epidemiology/microbiology
Cameroon/epidemiology
Child
Child
Preschool
Diagnosis
Differential
Endemic Diseases/statistics & numerical data
Female
HIV Infections/complications
Humans
Infant
Infant
Newborn
Male
Middle Aged
Mycobacterium ulcerans/genetics/isolation & purification
Osteomyelitis/complications/microbiology
Prospective Studies
Skin Ulcer/complications/diagnosis/microbiology/pathology
Young Adult

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TOUTOUS TRELLU, Laurence Marie et al. Differential Diagnosis of Skin Ulcers in a Mycobacterium ulcerans Endemic Area: Data from a Prospective Study in Cameroon. In: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016, vol. 10, n° 4, p. e0004385. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004385