Spontaneous healing of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease in Australian patients.

• Main Authors: Daniel P O'Brien (Author), Adrian Murrie (Author), Peter Meggyesy (Author), Jonathan Priestley (Author), Avinash Rajcoomar (Author), Eugene Athan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Mycobacterium ulcerans causes necrotising infections of skin and soft tissue mediated by the polyketide exotoxin mycolactone that causes cell apoptosis and immune suppression. It has been postulated that infection can be eradicated before the development of clinical lesions but spontaneou...