Department of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers, France.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Nov;85(5):897-9. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.11-0126.
Buruli ulcer is a tropical skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. Its mode of transmission is not yet clearly understood. We report here a cutaneous ulcer in a European traveler in South America resulting from a coinfection detected specifically for Mycobacterium ulcerans and Leishmania braziliensis DNA with real-time polymerase chain reaction. This observation of a unique cutaneous ulcer raises the issue about possible modes of transmission of those two pathogens by the same vector.
布鲁里溃疡是一种由溃疡分枝杆菌引起的热带皮肤病。其传播方式尚不清楚。我们在此报告一例在南美旅行的欧洲人发生的皮肤溃疡,通过实时聚合酶链反应检测到溃疡分枝杆菌和巴西利什曼原虫 DNA 的合并感染。这一独特皮肤溃疡的观察结果提出了关于同一传播媒介可能传播这两种病原体的问题。