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Buruli ulcers

Buruli ulcers is the plural of Buruli ulcer.

Meaning of Buruli ulcer

Noun

Buruli ulcer (plural Buruli ulcers)

  1. A type of ulcer caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans.
    • All of these farming activities were in swampy riverine areas, as has been observed in all other foci where Buruli ulcer is endemic (van der Werf et al., 1999; van Oye & Ballio, 1950).[…]In Australia, people living near a golf course, that was sprinkled by water pumped from a swamp, developed...2004, Eldryd Parry, Richard Godfrey, Geoffrey Gill, David Mabey, editors, Principles of Medicine in Africa, Cambridge University Press, page 1302

Questions about Buruli ulcers

What is Buruli ulcers the plural of?
Buruli ulcers is the plural of Buruli ulcer.

Words near Buruli ulcers in the dictionary

  1. Buruca
  2. Burucas
  3. burucha
  4. burukutu
  5. Buruli ulcer
  6. Buruli ulcers
  7. Burum
  8. burundanga
  9. Burundi
  10. Burundian
  11. Burundians

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