Volume 10, Number 8—August 2004

Research

Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease (Buruli ulcer) in Rural Hospital, Southern Benin, 1997–2001

Martine Debacker*, Julia Aguiar†, Christian Steunou†, Claude Zinsou*†, Wayne M. Meyers‡, Augustin Guédénon§, Janet T. Scott*, Michèle Dramaix¶, and Françoise Portaels* 

Author affiliations: *Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; †Centre Sanitaire et Nutritionnel Gbemoten, Zagnanado, Benin; ‡Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA; §Ministère de la Santé, Cotonou, Benin; ¶Ecole de Santé Publique, Brussels, Belgium

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Figure 1. Map of Benin with the four Buruli ulcer–endemic Regions: the Region of Zou (Z), the Region of Atlantique (A), the Region of Mono (M), and the Region of Oueme (O).

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