Buruli ulcer

Global network of laboratories for confirming Mycobacterium ulcerans disease

 

 

Country

Name of laboratory

Contact persons

Australia

Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne*

Maria Globan

Maria.globan@mh.org.au

Caroline Lavender

Caroline.Lavender@mh.org.au

Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Pathology Queensland

Sushil Pandey 

sushil_pandey@health.qld.gov.au

Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, PathWest, Nedlands, Western Australia

Terillee Keehner

Terillee.keehner@health.wa.gov.au

Benin

Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory, Cotonou

Dissou Affolabi 

affolabi_dissou@yahoo.fr

Noudehouenou Senou

claudeamarg@yahoo.fr

Centre de dépistage et de traitement de l'ulcère de Buruli "Raoul et Madeleine Follereau" de Pobè

Line-Marlène Ganlonon

marleneganlonon@gmail.com

Cameroon

Pasteur Institute, Yaoundé

Sara Eyangoh

eyangoh@pasteur-yaounde.org

Hycenth Numfor

bu-labnet@pasteur-yaounde.org 

Côte d'Ivoire

Pasteur Institute, Abidjan

Solange Kakou-Ngazoa

ngazoa_solange@yahoo.fr

N'Guetta Aka

aka_nguetta@yahoo.fr

DRC

Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Kinshasa

Marie-Jose Kabedi

bedye2001@yahoo.fr

Nadine Mintsey 

nadine.makuth@gmail.com

France

The Regional Center for Research in Cancerology and Immunology Nantes / Angers

Estelle Marion

estelle.marion@inserm.fr

French Guiana

Centre National de Référence des Mycobactéries et de la Résistance des Mycobactéries aux Antituberculeux, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Groupe hospitalier APHP, Sorbonne Université, Site Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Vincent Jarlier

vincent.jarlier@aphp.fr

Gabon

Centre  Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF)

Richard ONANGA

onangar@yahoo.com

Arsène MABIKA-MABIKA

mabik.mabik@yahoo.ca

Germany

Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Gisela Bretzel

bretzel@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Marcus Beissner

beissner@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Ghana

 

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Accra

Dorothy Yeboah-Manu 

Manu@noguchi.ug.edu.gh  

Anthony Ablordey

AAblordey@noguchi.ug.edu.gh

Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research, Kumasi

Richard Phillips

rodamephillips@gmail.com

Michael Frimpong 

mfrimpong28@gmail.com

Japan

Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo

Manabu Ato

ato@niid.go.jp

Yuji Miyamoto

yujim@nih.go.jp

Liberia

National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL)

Vera Yatta Walker  

yattawalker1@yahoo.com

Camila Johnson

johnsoncarmilia24@gmail.com

Nigeria

Nigerian Institute of Medical Research

Olaoluwa Akinwale

pheabian@yahoo.co.uk

Pam Vincent Gyang 

gyangvince@yahoo.com

Switzerland

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Gerd Pluschke

gerd.pluschke@swisstph.ch

Togo

Institut National d’Hygiène, Lomé

Wemboo Afiwa Halatoko

hjacky78@yahoo.fr

Issaka Maman 

mamanissaka@yahoo.fr

 

*Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia is a WHO Collaborating Center for M. ulcerans infection 

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