An antibiotic combination of streptomycin and rifampicin can knock out smaller ulcers, but treatment takes months. Also, streptomycin must be injected and has side effects.

Faster healing: In the study, diabetic foot ulcers treated with intact fish-skin graft were associated with faster wound closure time, with the wounds healing approximately two weeks earlier and ...

Buruli ulcer: What it’s like being infected with flesh-eating bacteria Authorities are warning about a flesh-eating virus found for the first time in Melbourne. Here, a sufferer tells her story.