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Volume 31, Number 3—March 2025
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Epidemiology of Buruli Ulcer in Victoria, Australia, 2017–2022

Bhavi RavindranComments to Author , Daneeta Hennessy, Miriam O’Hara, Ee Laine Tay, Rosalina Sa’aga Banuve, Jodie McVernon, and Kylie Carville
Author affiliation: Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Hospital, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (B. Ravindran, K. Carville); Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (B. Ravindran, R. Sa’aga Banuve); Department of Health, Melbourne (D. Hennessy, M. O’Hara, E.L. Tay); University of Melbourne Department of Microbiology and Immunology, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne (J. McVernon, K. Carville)

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Table 3

Characteristics of BU cases notified to the Victoria Department of Health, by exclusion or inclusion from logistic regression, Victoria, Australia, 2017–2022*

Variable Excluded, n = 357 Included, n = 1,394 p value
Sex 0.3
F 149 (42) 632 (45)
M 206 (58) 762 (55)
Unknown
 2
 0
Age, y, continuous
 54 (35,70)
 53 (36,69)
 0.5
Area of residence <0.001
New BU-endemic 30 (8.4) 133 (9.5)
Non–BU-endemic 91 (25) 513 (37)
Established BU-endemic
 236 (66)
 748 (54)
Year <0.001
2017 56 (16) 221 (16)
2018 56 (16) 284 (20)
2019 53 (15) 246 (18)
2020 55 (15) 162 (12)
2021 83 (23) 201 (14)
2022
 54 (15)
 280 (20)
Diagnosis delay, d, median (IQR) 13 (5, 33) 20 (8, 43) <0.001
Unknown
 209
 0
Presentation delay, d, median (IQR) 21 (2, 60) 28 (12, 50) 0.2
Unknown
 251
 0
WHO lesion category
I 145 (83) 1156 (81) 0.2
II/III 33 (17) 238 (19)
Unknown
 179
 0
*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. Percentages exclude missing data. BU, Buruli ulcer; WHO, World Health Organization.

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