Potential wildlife sentinels for monitoring the endemic spread of human buruli ulcer in South-East australia.

• Main Authors: Connor Carson (Author), Caroline J Lavender (Author), Kathrine A Handasyde (Author), Carolyn R O'Brien (Author), Nick Hewitt (Author), Paul D R Johnson (Author), Janet A M Fyfe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The last 20 years has seen a significant series of outbreaks of Buruli/Bairnsdale Ulcer (BU), caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, in temperate south-eastern Australia (state of Victoria). Here, the prevailing view of M. ulcerans as an aquatic pathogen has been questioned by recent research identifying...