Diet could be a way of preventing and treating a “flesh-eating” skin infection according to researchers at the University of Surrey.

Buruli ulcer is an infectious disease characterized by the development of painless open wounds.

Researchers worked with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a series of hospitals in Ghana.

They found Buruli patients had poorer diets and were more likely to have vitamin deficiencies than those without the condition.