Alphonse Um Boock

“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, Hans Peeters et al. · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2008 · 117 citations · Full text

Public Affairs, Health Sciences, Pharmacoeconomics +14

Geographic Distribution, Age Pattern and Sites of Lesions in a Cohort of Buruli Ulcer Patients from the Mapé Basin of Cameroon

Martin W. Bratschi, Miriam Bolz, Jacques C. Minyem et al. · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2013 · 86 citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +13

What Role Do Traditional Beliefs Play in Treatment Seeking and Delay for Buruli Ulcer Disease?–Insights from a Mixed Methods Study in Cameroon

Koen Peeters Grietens, Elizabeth Toomer, Alphonse Um Boock et al. · PLoS ONE · 2012 · 62 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Anthropology, Community Health +15

Phase Change Material for Thermotherapy of Buruli Ulcer: A Prospective Observational Single Centre Proof-of-Principle Trial

Thomas Junghanss, Alphonse Um Boock, Moritz Vogel et al. · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2009 · 56 citations · Full text

Medicine, Dermatology, Infectious Diseases +11

Developing a Buruli ulcer community of practice in Bankim, Cameroon: A model for Buruli ulcer outreach in Africa

Paschal Kum Awah, Alphonse Um Boock, Ferdinand Mou et al. · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018 · 43 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Anthropology, Community Health +17