FIG. 4.
Cutaneous lesions of a mouse tail due to M. ulcerans isolated from the salivary glands of a Naucoris bug captured in Ivory Coast. (A) BALB/c mouse tail showing an inflammatory ulceration (arrow) 8 weeks after subcutaneous inoculation of 104 bacilli (strain 01G897). (B and C) The same lesions (arrow) were observed in mouse tails inoculated with Nau.CI.001 (B) and Nau.CI.002 (C), which were isolated by culture from the salivary glands of water bugs captured in Ivory Coast. (D) Control mouse tail. Scale bars: 1.5 cm.