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Title: Buruli Ulcers


1
Buruli Ulcers
  • A neglected tropical disease
  • By Geraldine Ambe
  • Walden University
  • 10/24/09

2
Disease etiology
  • Environment
  • Agent host interaction
  • Cultural aspects
  • Behaviors
  • Population

3
Background
  • Buruli ulcers known as bairnsdale ulcer, daintree
    ulcer, mossman ulcer, searl ulcer, necrotizing
    disease of soft tissue.
  • Cause mycobacterium ulcerans.
  • Rapid emergency of disease in most parts of
    Africa.
  • WHO tools for better Bu control and surveillance.

4
Prevalence
  • Reported in over 30 countries.
  • Largest numbers in Zaire, Congo, Cameroon,
    Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Ivory
    coast, Australia, southeast Asia.

5
BARRIER TO DETERMINE EXACT PREVALENCE
  • Under reporting
  • Under diagnosing
  • Lack of access to health care
  • Multiple clinical presentation of disease
  • Limited knowledge of healthcare workers
  • Limited public knowledge about the disease

6
Epidemiology
  • Occurs near water bodies, rivers, lakes, swams,
    ponds( activities farming)
  • Most afflicted children age 15years and under
  • 90 of lesions on limbs
  • 60 lower limbs.

7
  • MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY
  • Disease has low mortality rate
  • High morbidity and socioeconomic burden
  • Prolong debility
  • Severely handicapping

8
Numerical Data
  • Countries Population 2002
    2003
  • Benin 6,097,000 565
    724
  • Cameroon 15,481,00 132 230
  • Cote divoire 17,109,00 0
    1235
  • Ghana 20,212,00 853
    739
  • Togo 4,629,00 96
    56
  • Guinee 8,185,820 328
    157

9
Causes
  • M Ulcerans slow growing mycobacteria causative
    agent of BU
  • An environmental pathogen, isolated from biofilms
    and small aquatic animals of slow moving, or
    stagnant bodies of water.
  • Suggested transmission, mosquitoes bites.

10
Signs and Symptoms
  • BU starts as a painless, mobile swelling in the
    skin.
  • Large area of induration
  • Diffuse swelling
  • No pain and fever
  • Incubation period few weeks to months.

11
Retrieved from http//www.who.int/buruli/photos/no
nulcerative/en/index.html
  • BU STARTS AS A NODULE

12
Buruli ulcer can extend to 15 of a person's skin
surface and may destroy nerves and blood vessels.
Metastatic bone lesions may develop
13
An edematous Buruli ulcer in a 9-year-old
Togolese girl (see Media File 3). Courtesy of
Wayne M. Meyers, MD.
14
Togolese girl in Media File 2 taken 5 years after
the Buruli ulcer had been excised and repaired
with autologous split-skin graft by G.B. Priuli,
MD. Courtesy of Wayne M. Meyers, MD
15
Treatment
  • WHO Recommendations
  • Rifampin / Streptomycin
  • Antimicrobials
  • Surgical intervention

16
Social and Cultural Aspects
  • Sociocultural belief
  • Fear
  • Stigma
  • Loss of productivity
  • Cost of treatment

17
Control and Surveillance
  • Reduce disability
  • Early detection
  • Training health care professionals
  • Case Management
  • Laboratory case confirmation
  • Advance health facilities
  • Monitor, evaluate control activities.

18
Goals
  • Improve case finding.
  • Improve case management
  • Improve surveillance
  • Improve Channels of communication.
  • Increase Research studies on Buruli ulcers.

19
Audience
  • Members of heavy burden communities
  • Medical health care professionals, (Doctors,
    nurses, laboratory workers, other health
    clinicians.
  • Village leaders
  • community field workers
  • University medical student and nursing school
    students.

20
Organizations
  • Centers for disease control and prevention (CDC)
  • UNICEF
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Doctors without Borders.
  • Buruli ulcer control programme Headquaters in
    Harare Zimbabwe.

21
ADVOCATES FOR GLOBAL HEALTH
22
References
  • Benbow, M.,E. Williamson, H., et al (2008). A
    large scale field study on aquatic invertebrates
    associated with buruli ulcer disease Are biting
    water bugs likely vectors? Emerging infectious
    diseases. Retrieved October 20th,2009 from
    website http//www.cdc.gov/EID/content/14/8/1247.h
    tm.
  • Wagner, T., Benbow, M.E., et al (2008). A
    landscape based model for predicting
    Mycobacterium ulcerans infections Buruli ulcer
    disease presence in Benin, West Africa.
    EcoHealth.
  • Guidelines for controlling buruli ulcers in the
    African Region(2006) World health organization
    Retrieved October 20th, 2009 from website
    www.afro.who.int/buruli/english/AFRO20BU20guidel
    ines.pdf-similar.
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