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In 1948, MacCallum and associates233 described a newly identified mycobacterial disease of the skin. It was marked by extensive undermining ulceration, and tissues revealed many acid-fast organisms. So far as they knew, the disease was limited to an area around Bairnsdale, on the southeast coast of Australia, almost directly east of Melbourne.
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Chapman, J.S. (1977). Mycobacterium ulcerans. In: The Atypical Mycobacteria and Human Mycobacteriosis. Topics in Infectious Disease. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2310-5_13
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