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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 1

Monthly trends for Buruli ulcer cases, Benin, 2003–2005

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total (DR/10,000 inhabitants)*
2003 59 62 48 49 52 63 79 44 41 93 64 77 731 (1.56)
2004 86 60 87 57 75 73 77 56 44 77 60 70 822 (1.73)
2005 72 89 89 91 93 100 77 94 73 88 97 82 1,045 (2.13)
Total 217 211 224 197 220 236 233 194 158 258 221 229 2,598

*DR, detection rate.

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