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Notes on Mycobacterium Ulcerans
Author(s) -
Buckle G.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1969.tb06536.x
Subject(s) - mycobacterium ulcerans , transmission (telecommunications) , organism , medicine , zoology , virology , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , disease , pathology , genetics , electrical engineering , engineering
A record is given of the events leading to the discovery, the cultivation, and the animal transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative organism of the “Bairnsdale ulcer”, together with a discussion on the possible animal hosts and vectors. It is suggested as a mailer of speculation that the insectivorous bats may be incriminated as the natural hosts, and that bed‐bugs or related bugs, parasitic on bats, may be the vectors.