Tracing Mycobacterium ulcerans along an alimentary chain in Cote d'Ivoire: A one health perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mycobacterium ulcerans is an environmental mycobacterium responsible for an opportunistic, noncontagious tropical infection named Buruli ulcer that necrotizes the skin and the subcutaneous tissues. M. ulcerans is thought to penetrate through breached skin after contact with contaminated wetland environments, yet the exact biotopes where M. ulcerans occurs remain elusive, hence obscuring the epidemiological chain of transmission of this opportunistic pathogen.

Methodology/principal findings

Polymerase chain reaction investigations detected M. ulcerans in 39/46 (84.7%) rhizosphere specimens collected in 13 Buruli ulcer-endemic areas in Côte d'Ivoire and 3/20 (15%) specimens collected in a nonendemic area (P = 5.73.E-7); only 3/63 (4.7%) sediment specimens from sedim

SUBMITTER: Hammoudi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7255608 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature