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Volume 25, Number 12—December 2019
Synopsis

Global Epidemiology of Buruli Ulcer, 2010–2017, and Analysis of 2014 WHO Programmatic Targets

Till F. OmansenComments to Author , Alfred Erbowor-Becksen, Rie Yotsu, Tjip S. van der Werf, Alexander Tiendrebeogo, Lise Grout, and Kingsley Asiedu
Author affiliations: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine and University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany (T.F. Omansen); World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (T.F. Omansen, A. Erbowor-Becksen, L. Grout, K. Asiedu); Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (A. Erbowor-Becksen); Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan (R. Yotsu); National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (R. Yotsu); University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands (T.S. van der Werf); World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo (A. Tiendrebeogo)

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Table 2

Epidemiologic data on Buruli ulcer cases reported to the World Health Organization, 2010–2017*

Region and country Total no. cases, 2011–2017 2017 data
No. suspected cases
 Incidence, cases/100,000 population Patients age <15 y, % Female patients, % Lesion located on lower limb, % Completed antimicrobial therapy, %
2010 2017
AFRO region
Benin 572 267 3,027 2.35 41 50.5 61† 100†
Cameroon 287 No data 1,180 No data 31† 49† 74† 99†
Congo 107 No data 207 No data No data No data No data No data
Côte d'Ivoire 2,533 344 8,713 1.31 48 52 57† 100†
DRC 136 91 1,535 1.80 33† 44† 72† 100†
Gabon 65 45 402 2.12 40 49 77† 84
Ghana 1,048 538 4,828 1.91 13 48 83† No data
Guinea 24 98 549 0.83 14† No data No data No data
Liberia No data 219 353 4.55 14 47 No data 57
Nigeria 7 259 747 0.13 50 57 78† 94
Sierra Leone No data No data 28 No data No data No data No data No data
South Sudan 4 No data 4 No data No data No data No data No data
Togo 67 62 500 0.76 53 42 54† 86†
AFRO subtotal‡
 4,850
 1,923
 22,073
31
 50
 71
 70
WPRO region
Australia 42 283 1,033 1.21 10 48 58 100†
Japan 9 6 52 0.0048 17 67 50† 100
Papua New 
Guinea 5 5 48 0.07 80 60
WPRO subtotal‡
 56
 294
 1,133
11
 49
 58
 100
Global total 4,906 2,217 23,196 26 50 69 74

*Data from Buruli ulcer–endemic countries that reported continuous data for most of the years assessed. Up-to-date country data on annual reported cases are available at http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A1631. AFRO, WHO African Region; DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo; WPRO, WHO Western Pacific Region; WHO, World Health Organization.
†2016 data; 2017 data were not available.
‡Cases and total cases represent sums of countries per region. Programmatic indicators represented mean proportions weighted for case burden in the respective countries.

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