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Mycobacterium ulcerans

Index Mycobacterium ulcerans

Mycobacterium ulcerans is a slow-growing mycobacterium that classically infects the skin and subcutaneous tissues, giving rise to indolent nonulcerated (nodules, plaques) and ulcerated lesions. [1]

33 relations: Actinobacteria, Actinomycetales, Bacteria, Bairnsdale, Buruli ulcer, Busoga, Caucasian race, Corynebacterineae, Cytotoxicity, DNA sequencing, Epidemiology, Fly River, Immunosuppression, Injury, Isolation (microbiology), Ivory Coast, Lake Victoria, Leprosy, Lesion, Mycobacterium, Mycolactone, Necrosis, Papua New Guinea, Polymerase chain reaction, Sepik, Skin, Subcutaneous tissue, Subtropics, Tropics, Tuberculosis, University of Ibadan, Victoria (Australia), White Nile.

Actinobacteria

The Actinobacteria are a phylum of Gram-positive bacteria.

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Actinomycetales

The Actinomycetales are an order of Actinobacteria.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.

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Bairnsdale

Bairnsdale is a city in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

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Buruli ulcer

Buruli ulcer is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans.

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Busoga

Busoga is a traditional Bantu kingdom and one of five constitutional monarchies in present-day Uganda.

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Caucasian race

The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid or Europid) is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon, which, depending on which of the historical race classifications used, have usually included some or all of the ancient and modern populations of Europe, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia and South Asia.

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Corynebacterineae

The Corynebacterineae comprise a suborder of the Actinomycetales and include most of the acid-fast bacteria.

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Cytotoxicity

Cytotoxicity is the quality of being toxic to cells.

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DNA sequencing

DNA sequencing is the process of determining the precise order of nucleotides within a DNA molecule.

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Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where) and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations.

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Fly River

The Fly, at, is the second longest river in Papua New Guinea, after the Sepik.

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Immunosuppression

Immunosuppression is a reduction of the activation or efficacy of the immune system.

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Injury

Injury, also known as physical trauma, is damage to the body caused by external force.

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Isolation (microbiology)

In microbiology, the term isolation refers to the separation of a strain from a natural, mixed population of living microbes, as present in the environment, for example in water or soil flora, or from living beings with skin flora, oral flora or gut flora, in order to identify the microbe(s) of interest.

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Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a sovereign state located in West Africa.

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Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe in Luo; Nalubaale in Luganda; Nyanza in Kinyarwanda and some Bantu languages) is one of the African Great Lakes.

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Leprosy

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis.

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Lesion

A lesion is any abnormal damage or change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by disease or trauma.

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Mycobacterium

Mycobacterium is a genus of Actinobacteria, given its own family, the Mycobacteriaceae.

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Mycolactone

Mycolactone is a polyketide-derived macrolide produced and secreted by a group of very closely related pathogenic Mycobacteria species that have been assigned a variety of names including, M. ulcerans, M. liflandii (an unofficial designation), M. pseudoshottsii, and some strains of M. marinum.

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Necrosis

Necrosis (from the Greek νέκρωσις "death, the stage of dying, the act of killing" from νεκρός "dead") is a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.

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Polymerase chain reaction

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a segment of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.

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Sepik

The Sepik River is the longest river on the island of New Guinea, and after the Fly and the Mamberamo the third largest by volume.

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Skin

Skin is the soft outer tissue covering vertebrates.

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Subcutaneous tissue

The subcutaneous tissue, also called the hypodermis, hypoderm, subcutis, or superficial fascia, is the lowermost layer of the integumentary system in vertebrates.

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Subtropics

The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.

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Tropics

The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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University of Ibadan

The University of Ibadan (UI) is the oldest Nigerian university, and is located five miles (8 kilometres) from the centre of the major city of Ibadan in Western Nigeria.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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White Nile

The White Nile (النيل الأبيض) is a river in Africa, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile; the other is the Blue Nile.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_ulcerans

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