Seasonal Patterns of Buruli Ulcer Incidence, Central Africa, 2002-2012.

Jordi Landier (1, 2) , Guillaume Constantin de Magny (3) , Andres Garchitorena (4, 5) , Jean-François Guégan , Jean Gaudart (6, 7) , Laurent Marsollier (8) , Philippe Le Gall (9) , Tamara Giles-Vernick (2) , Sara Eyangoh (1) , Arnaud Fontanet (2, 10) , Gaëtan Texier (7, 1)

1 Centre Pasteur du Cameroun
2 Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes - Emerging Diseases Epidemiology
3 UMR ECOFOG - Ecologie des forêts de Guyane
4 MIVEGEC - Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle
5 EHESP - École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP]
6 AMU - Aix Marseille Université
7 SESSTIM - U912 INSERM - Aix Marseille Univ - IRD - Sciences Economiques et Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l'Information Médicale
8 CRCNA - Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie Nantes-Angers
9 Programme d'Épigénomique
10 CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]

To determine when risk for Buruli ulcer is highest, we examined seasonal patterns in a highly disease-endemic area of Cameroon during 2002-2012. Cases peaked in March, suggesting that risk is highest during the high rainy season. During and after this season, populations should increase protective behaviors, and case detection efforts should be intensified.

Keywords: wavelet analysis; Cameroon; evolution; gene loss; heat shock protein; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria; seasonal variations; Central Africa; Mycobacterium ulcerans; bacteria; Buruli ulcer; synteny; HSP70; phylogeny; copy number variation; Leishmania

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Santé publique et épidémiologie; Environmental Sciences; Environmental and Society; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Ecology, environment; Health; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology; Infectious diseases; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology; Emerging diseases; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Parasitology

Jordi Landier, Guillaume Constantin de Magny, Andres Garchitorena, Jean-François Guégan, Jean Gaudart, et al.. Seasonal Patterns of Buruli Ulcer Incidence, Central Africa, 2002-2012.. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015, 21 (8), pp.1414-1417. ⟨10.3201/eid2108.141336⟩. ⟨hal-01307147⟩