'It is me who endures but my family that suffers': social isolation as a consequence of the household cost burden of Buruli ulcer free of charge hospital treatment

Koen Peeters Grietens; Alphonse Um Boock; H Peeters; S Hausmann-Muela; E Toomer; J Muela Ribera

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000321

'It is me who endures but my family that suffers': social isolation as a consequence of the household cost burden of Buruli ulcer free of charge hospital treatment

Koen Peeters Grietens, Alphonse Um Boock, H Peeters, S Hausmann-Muela, E Toomer, J Muela Ribera

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Original language	English
Journal	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Volume	2
Issue number	10
Pages (from-to)	e321
Number of pages	7
ISSN	1935-2727
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000321
Publication status	Published - 2008

Keywords

B780-tropical-medicine
Bacterial diseases
Buruli ulcer
Mycobacterium ulcerans
Disease burden
Socioeconomic impact
Isolation
Cost
Hospitalization
Treatment
Free care
Financing
Sustainability
Cameroon
Africa-Central

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Peeters Grietens, K, Um Boock, A, Peeters, H, Hausmann-Muela, S, Toomer, E & Muela Ribera, J 2008, ''It is me who endures but my family that suffers': social isolation as a consequence of the household cost burden of Buruli ulcer free of charge hospital treatment', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. e321. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000321

'It is me who endures but my family that suffers': social isolation as a consequence of the household cost burden of Buruli ulcer free of charge hospital treatment. / Peeters Grietens, Koen; Um Boock, Alphonse; Peeters, H et al.
In: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol. 2, No. 10, 2008, p. e321.

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