ArticleNature microbiology2024
Mosquitoes provide a transmission route between possums and humans for Buruli ulcer in southeastern Australia.
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- Transmission models of Mycobacterium ulcerans: A systematic review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Autodissemination stations suppress Aedes notoscriptus mosquitoes and reduce Buruli ulcer risk in urban Australia: a randomized controlled field trial.Nature microbiology · 2026Trial
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- Zoonotic Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: Transmission Pathways, Laboratory Diagnosis, Detection Methodologies, and One Health Priorities.Infectious diseases & clinical microbiology · 2026Review
- Field Survey of Freshwater Invertebrates Reveals That Several Groups Are Potential Carriers of the Fungal PathogenEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Integrated action for skin NTDs: Deconstructing transmission, addressing knowledge gaps, and championing one health strategies.Nature communications · 2026Review
- Comparative analysis of Buruli ulcer in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire: A cross-sectional study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Defining new Buruli ulcer endemic areas in urban southeastern Australia using bacterial genomics-informed possum excreta surveys.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Buruli ulcer.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025Review
- Canonical fact versus hypothesis testing to decipher transmission of non-tuberculous and tuberculous mycobacteria: a comparative review.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Successful treatment with joint retention of Mycobacterium ulcerans prosthetic joint infection in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- A refined low-dose murine model ofmBio · 2025Article
- The Role of Foxes in Transmitting Zoonotic Bacteria to Humans: A Scoping Review.Zoonoses and public health · 2025Article
- Territorial and gender-linked risk factors for Buruli ulcer in Southern Benin: A case-control study using geographic and behavioral surveying.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- AtypicalJournal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Detection ofApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- The monogenic landscape of human infectious diseases.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2025Review
- Mycobacterium ulcerans in Possum Feces before Emergence in Humans, Australia.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of Buruli Ulcer in Victoria, Australia, 2017-2022.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Review
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Abstract
Buruli ulcer, a chronic subcutaneous infection caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is increasing in prevalence in southeastern Australia. Possums are a local wildlife reservoir for M. ulcerans and, although mosquitoes have been implicated in transmission, it remains unclear how humans acquire infection. We conducted extensive field survey analyses of M. ulcerans prevalence among mosquitoes in the Mornington Peninsula region of southeastern Australia. PCR screening of trapped mosquitoes revealed a significant association between M. ulcerans and Aedes notoscriptus. Spatial scanning statistics revealed overlap between clusters of M. ulcerans-positive Ae. notoscriptus, M. ulcerans-positive possum excreta and Buruli ulcer cases, and metabarcoding analyses showed individual mosquitoes had fed on humans and possums. Bacterial genomic analysis confirmed shared single-nucleotide-polymorphism profiles for M. ulcerans detected in mosquitoes, possum excreta and humans. These findings indicate Ae. notoscriptus probably transmit M. ulcerans in southeastern Australia and highlight mosquito control as a Buruli ulcer prevention measure.
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