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To assess possible transmission of M. ulcerans by aquatic biting insects, we conducted a field examination of biting water bugs (Hemiptera: Naucoridae, Belostomatidae, Nepidae) in 15 disease-endemic and 12 non disease-endemic areas of Ghanon disease-endemic
In this direction, several researchers have proposed that biting water bugs could be vectors for M. ulcerans (1 ).
Various researchers have proposed that biting water bugs could be vectors for M. ulcerans, and laboratory studies have provided evidence for this possibility.
Although our results do not prove that infection could never occur from biting water bugs, they suggest that such an event would be rare.
This study addressed each of these characteristics and did not find strong confirming evidence that biting water bugs were any more important in the transmission of M. ulcerans than passive contact exposure to the environment.
Biting water bugs were not correlated with pathogen occurrence.
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Additionally, some people are being bitten by water snakes.
This finding is consistent with reports that few infected persons remember being bitten by water bugs (30 ).
Some respondents also associated trypanosomosis with tick bite, watering animals at river, river side grass grazing and drinking stagnant water.
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