TY - JOUR
KW - Young Adult
KW - Sex Characteristics
KW - Mycobacterium ulcerans
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Male
KW - Humans
KW - Female
KW - Democratic Republic of the Congo
KW - Child
KW - Buruli ulcer
KW - Aged
KW - Age Distribution
KW - Adult
KW - Adolescent
AU - Suykerbuyk P
AU - Wambacq J
AU - Phanzu D
AU - Haruna H
AU - Nakazawa Y
AU - Ooms K
AU - Kamango K
AU - Stragier P
AU - Singa J
AU - Ekwanzala F
AU - De Herdt E
AU - De Maeyer P
AU - Kestens L
AU - Portaels F
AB - <p>Fifty years after the last report of Mycobacterium ulcerans infections (Buruli ulcer [BU]) in Kasongo Territory, Maniema Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we conducted a small-scale cross-sectional survey to assess if this historical BU focus was still active and if so to explore the disease epidemiology. Seventy-five active and inactive BU cases were identified on clinical grounds of which two of 28 BU active cases were laboratory confirmed. We used a modified BU02 form to reconstruct the local disease dynamics and we believe that the horrific conflict in eastern DRC and exceptional flooding were the most likely causes of the re-emergence of the disease. There is a need in the DRC to decentralize and integrate surveillance and control activities at local level to increase the effectiveness of patient management.</p>

BT - The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
C1 - <p>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19861627?dopt=Abstract</p>

DO - 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0049
IS - 5
J2 - Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Fifty years after the last report of Mycobacterium ulcerans infections (Buruli ulcer [BU]) in Kasongo Territory, Maniema Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we conducted a small-scale cross-sectional survey to assess if this historical BU focus was still active and if so to explore the disease epidemiology. Seventy-five active and inactive BU cases were identified on clinical grounds of which two of 28 BU active cases were laboratory confirmed. We used a modified BU02 form to reconstruct the local disease dynamics and we believe that the horrific conflict in eastern DRC and exceptional flooding were the most likely causes of the re-emergence of the disease. There is a need in the DRC to decentralize and integrate surveillance and control activities at local level to increase the effectiveness of patient management.</p>

PY - 2009
SP - 888
EP - 94
T2 - The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
TI - Persistence of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli Ulcer) in the historical focus of Kasongo Territory, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
UR - http://www.ajtmh.org/docserver/fulltext/14761645/81/5/888.pdf?expires=1493045102&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=2EB20A6F2F7D9F452645FA0DDE1E0622
VL - 81
SN - 1476-1645
ER -