Biomaterial Database

Mycetoma in Sudan: experience of the Mycetoma Project from 1968 to 1991. 2021

Elsheikh Mahgoub

Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.

International collaboration on research on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is regarded as a norm, but it was not always so. This article is an account of a growing international collaboration on the diagnosis and treatment of mycetoma that started in Sudan in the 1960s and has grown and flourished up to the present day.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008271	Mycetoma	A chronic progressive subcutaneous infection caused by species of fungi (eumycetoma), or actinomycetes (actinomycetoma). It is characterized by tumefaction, abscesses, and tumor-like granules representing microcolonies of pathogens, such as MADURELLA fungi and bacteria ACTINOMYCETES, with different grain colors.	Madura Foot,Maduromycosis,Actinomycetoma,Eumycetoma
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013397	Sudan	A country in northeastern Africa. The capital is Khartoum.	Republic of the Sudan
D058069	Neglected Diseases	Diseases that are underfunded and have low name recognition but are major burdens in less developed countries. Neglected diseases include many tropical infectious diseases, e.g., HELMINTHIASIS; LEPROSY; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; and TRACHOMA.	Neglected Tropical Diseases,Disease, Neglected,Disease, Neglected Tropical,Neglected Disease,Neglected Tropical Disease,Tropical Disease, Neglected