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Aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages of Ghana, West Africa: understanding the ecology of a neglected tropical disease.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A need for null models in understanding disease transmission: the example of Mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer disease).FEMS microbiology reviews · 2022Pooled it
- One Health implementation in Ghana: a perspective on policy development and institutional change.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Spatiotemporal distribution ofEmerging microbes & infections · 2025Article
- Understanding the transmission of bacterial agents of sapronotic diseases using an ecosystem-based approach: A first spatially realistic metacommunity model.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Systematic review: Global host range, case fatality and detection rates ofJournal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2024Review
- What about Current Diversity of Mycolactone-Producing Mycobacteria? Implication for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Buruli Ulcer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Linking theOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Review
- Understanding the transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans: A step towards controlling Buruli ulcer.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Review
- Mapping suitability for Buruli ulcer at fine spatial scales across Africa: A modelling study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of terrestrial invertebrate assemblages in the riparian zone of the Wewe river, Ashanti region, Ghana.Open life sciences · 2020Article
- Modelling the spatial distribution of aquatic insects (Order Hemiptera) potentially involved in the transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Africa.Parasites & vectors · 2018Article
- Global and local environmental changes as drivers of Buruli ulcer emergence.Emerging microbes & infections · 2017Review
- Landscape and environmental influences on Mycobacterium ulcerans distribution among aquatic sites in Ghana.PloS one · 2017Article
- Functional Diversity as a New Framework for Understanding the Ecology of an Emerging Generalist Pathogen.EcoHealth · 2016Article
- Socio-Environmental Factors Associated with the Risk of Contracting Buruli Ulcer in Tiassalé, South Côte d'Ivoire: A Case-Control Study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016Article
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- Ecological niche modelling of Hemipteran insects in Cameroon; the paradox of a vector-borne transmission for Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer.International journal of health geographics · 2014Article
- Mycobacterium ulcerans ecological dynamics and its association with freshwater ecosystems and aquatic communities: results from a 12-month environmental survey in Cameroon.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2014Article
- Mycobacterium ulcerans fails to infect through skin abrasions in a guinea pig infection model: implications for transmission.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2014Article
- Mycobacterium ulcerans persistence at a village water source of Buruli ulcer patients.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2014Article
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Abstract
Buruli ulcer (BU) is an emerging, but neglected tropical disease, where there has been a reported association with disturbed aquatic habitats and proposed aquatic macroinvertebrate vectors such as biting Hemiptera. An initial step in understanding the potential role of macroinvertebrates in the ecology of BU is to better understand the entire community, not just one or two taxa, in relation to the pathogen, Mycobacterium ulcerans, at a large spatial scale. For the first time at a country-wide scale this research documents that M. ulcerans was frequently detected from environmental samples taken from BU endemic regions, but was not present in 30 waterbodies of a non-endemic region. There were significant differences in macroinvertebrate community structure and identified potential indicator taxa in relation to pathogen presence. These results suggest that specific macroinvertebrate taxa or functional metrics may potentially be used as aquatic biological indicators of M. ulcerans. Developing ecological indicators of this pathogen is a first step for understanding the disease ecology of BU and should assist future studies of transmission.
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