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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2025

Mycobacterium ulcerans in Possum Feces before Emergence in Humans, Australia.

Bridgette J McNamara, Jack Cornish, Kim R Blasdell, Eugene Athan, Naomi E Clarke, Tiffany Pe, Mohammad Akhtar Hussain, Michael Muleme, Ee Laine Tay, Michael Dunn and 3 more

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Buruli ulcer.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
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  3. Article
  4. Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Bridgette J McNamara
Jack Cornish
Kim R Blasdell
Eugene Athan
Naomi E Clarke
Tiffany Pe
Mohammad Akhtar Hussain
Michael Muleme
Ee Laine Tay
Michael Dunn
Victoria Boyd
Anjana Karawita
Daniel P O'Brien

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe emergence of Buruli ulcer in urban Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and examine timing and proximity of human cases to detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans DNA in possum feces. M. ulcerans-positive feces preceded human cases by up to 39 months, constituting an early warning of impending risk for Buruli ulcer.

Indexed as

Buruli UlcerCommunicable Diseases, EmergingFecesMycobacterium ulceransTrichosurusAnimalsAustraliaDNA, BacterialHumansVictoriaDNA, BacterialAustraliabacteriaepidemiologyincidenceKeywords: Buruli ulcerMycobacterium ulceranspossum reservoir hostspreventionsurveillancetuberculosis and other mycobacteriaurban outbreakzoonoses

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PMID40023807
PMCPMC11878303

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