Buruli ulcer

Buruli ulcer - Management of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease


Acknowledgements and contributors

This manual was published thanks to the financial support from the Association Française Raoul Follereau, ANESVAD, Médecins Sans Frontières- Luxembourg and the Nippon Foundation.

Acknowledgements

With special thanks to:

  • George Amofah, Ministry of Health, Ghana
  • Kwame Asamoa, Ministry of Health, Ghana
  • David Ashford, CDC, Atlanta, USA
  • Rosemary Bell, France
  • Samuel Etuaful, St Martin’s Catholic Hospital, Agroyesum, Ghana
  • Sister Joseph, Wewak General Hospital, Papua New Guinea
  • Luca Saguatti, Italy, for their support

for their support.

Contributors

  • Dr Pius Agbenorku, Department of Plastic Surgery, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana Sister Julia Aguiar, Mission Catholique Zagnanado, Zagnanado, Benin
  • Prof. Henri Assé, Institute Raoul Follereau, Adzope, Côte d’Ivoire
  • Dr John Buntine, Cornell Specialists’ Centre, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
  • Dr Kimball Crofts, HART USA
  • Dr Afua Hesse, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
  • Sister Joseph, Wewak Hospital, Wewak, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
  • Prof. Christophe Oberlin, Service de Chirurgie orthopédique et traumatologique, Groupe Hospitalier Bichat Claude-Bernard, Paris, France
  • Dr G. Battista Priuli, Hôpital St-Jeande-Dieu, Tanguiéta, Benin
  • Mrs May Smith, Mossman District Hospital, Cairns, Australia
  • Dr Christina Steffen, Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, Australia
  • Dr Kingsley Asiedu, Communicable Diseases Control, Prevention and Eradication, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Mr Anders Eklund, Disability and Rehabilitation, Non–communicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Dr Ann Goerdt, Disability and Rehabilitation, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Dr Jean Emmanuel, Blood Safety and Clinical Technology, Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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