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Volume 13, Number 9—September 2007
Dispatch

Buruli Ulcer Surveillance, Benin, 2003–2005

Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh*Comments to Author , Roch Christian Johnson†, Annick Chauty‡, Ange Dodji Dossou*§, Julia Aguiar¶, Olivier Salmon#, Françoise Portaels**, and Kingsley Asiedu††
Author affiliations: *Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli, d’Allada, Bénin; †Programme National de Lutte contre l’Ulcère de Buruli, Cotonou, Bénin; ‡Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli de Pobè, Pobè, Bénin; §Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli de Lalo, Lalo Bénin; ¶Centre Sanitaire et Nutritionnel Gbemontin, Zagnanado, Bénin; #Hôpital “La Croix,” de Zinvié, Bénin; **Institut de Médecine Tropicale, Antwerp, Belgium; ††World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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Table 2

Buruli ulcer cases reported in Benin by region, 2003–2005*

Region 2003, no. (%) 2004, no. (%) 2005, no. (%) Total, no. (%)
Atlantique 171 (23) 171 (21) 263 (25) 605 (23)
Collines 2 (0) 0 0 2 (0)
Couffo 89 (12) 107 (13) 128 (12) 324 (12)
Littoral 8 (1) 18 (2) 31 (3) 57 (2)
Mono 14 (2) 13 (2) 20 (2) 47 (2)
Oueme 275 (38) 252 (31) 304 (29) 831 (32)
Plateau 26 (4) 43 (5) 79 (8) 148 (6)
Zou 124 (17) 201 (24) 198 (19) 523 (20)
Nigeria 4 (1) 3 (0) 6 (1) 13 (1)
Togo 2 (0) 2 (0) 1 (0) 5 (0)
Not specified 16 (2) 12 (1) 15 (1) 43 (2)
Total 731 (100) 822 (100) 1,045 (100) 2,598 (100)

*Benin surveillance captures data from the neighboring countries of Nigeria and Togo.

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