Buruli ulcer

短语

词形变化

Buruli ulcers 复数 Buruli ulcers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A type of ulcer caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans.

    医学

    2006, WHO Regional Office for Africa, The Health of the People: The African Regional Health Report, World Health Organization, page 56, Neglected diseases — such as sleeping sickness, visceral leishmaniasis and Buruli ulcer — continue to take their toll in the African Region, but they no longer figure on the disease-control agenda of the developed world.

词源

Named after a county of Uganda where important foci of the disease were studied.

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