Barwon Health brings our research to the WHO
The Barwon Health Infectious Diseases Team, led by Professor Eugene Athan and A/Professor Daniel O’Brien, were invited to present their world leading research at the WHO Buruli Ulcer meeting in Geneva in 2019.
Supported by a $3 million NHMRC Partnership across Barwon Health, Deakin University, CSIRO and the University of Melbourne, the team presented two clinical studies and a large case control study underway to help identify the potential environmental and behavioural factors causing disease transmission.
The team have also published an article in the Clinical Infectious Disease Journal that for smaller lesions, six weeks may be as effective as the currently recommended eight weeks of combined antibiotic therapy in curing lesions without surgery.
The full publication can be read here.