The quality of medical care the POWs received from their medical personnel for malaria, cholera, dysentery and especially tropical ulcers was important.
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Among the new species described are " F . ulcerans " from tropical ulcers, and several species from the oral cavity.
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Ill with malaria, scurvy and with a tropical ulcer on his foot he was forced to remain for five months in the village.
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There is an outpatients department, which sees a large volume of patients each day, and includes a wound clinic with specialist care for leprosy patients and tropical ulcers.
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In the 20th Century, " Lysinibacillus fusiformis " was believed to cause a form of pathogenicity in humans relating to tropical ulcer formations and dermal and / or respiratory infections.
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He was coming down with cholera and had tropical ulcers on his feet, so he was again forced to rely on slave traders to get him as far as Bambara where he was caught by the wet season.
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At one point, rendered skeletal by starvation, he developed tropical ulcers on his legs, and was transferred to Chunkai hospital camp, where his limbs were saved from amputation by Edward Dunlop and Major Arthur Moon.
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The involvement of fusobacteria in a wide spectrum of human infections causing tissue necrosis and septicaemia has long been recognised, and, more recently, their importance in intra-amniotic infections, premature labour and tropical ulcers has been reported.
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"We built a railway from near Bangkok to near Rangoon thousands of us POWs starved, scourged, racked with malaria, dysentery, beri-beri, pellagra and stinking tropical ulcers that ate a leg to the bone ."
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During his service with Yale's 39th General Hospital Brigade in New Zealand, MacLean worked together with Dr . Averill Liebow to show that the diphtheria bacillus was a cause of tropical ulcers, paving the way for successful prophylaxis and treatment.