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  1. White P.C.L., Guégan J.-F., Keune H., Geijzendorffer I.R., Hermans T., Prieur-Richard A.-H., Iroegbu C., Stone D., Fretsch C., de Vries S., De Bell S., Ford-Thompson A., and Graham H. (2020). Integrative policy development for healthier people and ecosystems: a European case analysis.  Area 1-10. DOI: 10.1111/area.12618.

  2. Guégan J.-F., Ayouba A., Cappelle J., and Thoisy B. de (2020). Forests and emerging infectious diseases: unleashing the beast within. Environmental Research Letters (in press). doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0061.v1

  3. Chavy A., Ferreira Dales Nava A., Luiz Bessa Luz S., Ramirez J.D., Herrera G., Vasconcelos dos Santos T., Ginouves M., Demar M., Prévot G., Guégan J.-F.* and de Thoisy B.* (2019). Ecological niche modelling for predicting the risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Neotropical moist forest biome. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13: e0007629. * Co-senior authors.

  4. Fast KM, Forrest BE, Granec GR, Larrimore JD, Morse AE, Ryan ED, Schellhammer PK, Keener TW ,and Sandel MW (2019) Complete Genome Sequences of Mycobacteriophages Candle, Schatzie, Sumter, and Waleliano. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 8(30):e00643-19.

  5. Sanhueza D, Guégan J-F, Jordan HR, and Chevillon C (2019) Environmental variations in Mycobacterium ulcerans transcriptome: absence of mycolactone expression in suboptimal environments. Toxins 11 :146

  6. Sanhueza D, Chevillon C, Boumzibi N, Godreuil S, and Guégan JF (2018) Chitin increases Mycobacterium ulcerans growth in acidic environment. Microbes & Environments 2 : 234-237

  7. Guégan J.-F., Thoisy B. (de), Ayouba A., et Cappelle J. (2018). Forêts tropicales, changements d’usage des sols et risques infectieux émergents. Santé publique 30 - Revue française forestière 2-3-4 (numéro spécial), pp. 209-230.

  8. Abbate J.L., Ezenwa V.O., Guégan J.-F., Choisy M., Nacher M. and Roche B. (2018). Disentangling complex parasite interactions: protection against cerebral malaria by some helminth species is jeopardized by co-infection with others. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 12: e0006483.

  9. Guégan J.-F., Suzán G.A., Kati-Coulibaly S., Bonpamgue D.N. and Moatti J.-P. (2018). The United-Nations, Health and Sustainability. An analysis of Sustainable Development Goal #3 "Health and well-being". Veterinaria Mexico AO 5(2). Doi:10.21753/vmoa.5.2.443.

  10. Murray K.A., Olivero J., Roche B., Tiedt S. and Guégan J.-F. (2018). Pathogeography: leveraging the biogeography of human infectious diseases for global health management.  Ecography 41: 1-17. Doi: 10.111/ecog.03625

  11. Fast KM, Keener TW, Castleberry S, Jones KD, Larrimore JD, Long CA, Newburn JT, Pritchett NC, Schellhammer PK, and Sandel MW. (2018) Complete Genome Sequences of Mycobacteriophages Kwksand96 and Cane17. Microbiol Resour Announc. 7(17):e01182-18.

  12. Fast KM, Keener T, Ali R, Butcher BM, Millwood JD, Odom T, Schellhammer PK, Ufomadu E, and Sandel MW (2018) Genome Sequence of a Newly Isolated F2 Subcluster Mycobacteriophage from the Black Belt Geological Region of Western Alabama. Genome Announc.. 6(4):e01555-17.

  13. Hosseini P.R., Mills J.N., Prieur-Richard A.-H., Ezenwa V.O., Bailly X., Rizzoli A., Suzan G.A., Vittecoq M., García-Peña G.E., Daszak P., Guégan J.-F., and Roche B. (2017). Does the impact of biodiversity differ between emerging and endemic pathogens? The need to separate the concepts of hazard and risk. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, Series B, 372: 20160129.

  14. Garchitorena A., Sokolow S.H., Roche B.,  Ngonghala C.N., Jocque M., Lund A., Barry M., Mordecai E.A., Daily G.C., Jones J.H., Andrews J.R., Bendavid E., Luby S.P., LaBeaud A.D., Seetah K., Guégan J.-F., Bonds M.H., and De Leo G.A. (2017). Disease ecology, health and the environment: a framework to account for ecological and socio-economic drivers in the control of neglected tropical diseases. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, Series B, 372: 20160128.

  15. Douine M, Gozlan RE, Nacher M, Dufour J, Reynaud Y, Elguero E, Combe M, Velvin CJ, Chevillon C, Berlioz-Arthaud A, Labbé S, Sainte-Marie D, Guégan JF, Pradinaud R, and Couppié P (2017) Forty-five years of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer) in French Guiana, South America: an epidemiological transition. The Lancet Planetary Health- 1 : e65-73

  16. Meyin à Ebong S., García-Peña G.E., Pluot-Sigwalt D., Marsollier L., Le Gall P., Eyangoh S. and  Guégan J.-F. (2017). Ecology and feeding Habits drive Infection of Water Bugs with Mycobacterium ulcerans. EcoHealth. Doi: 10.1007/s10393-017-1228-y.

  17. Combe M., Velvin C.J., Morris A.L., Garchitorena A., Carolan K.,  Sanhueza D., Roche B., Couppié P., Guégan J.-F. and Gozlan R.E. (2017).  Global and local environmental changes as drivers of Buruli ulcer emergence. (Nature) Emerging Microbes & Infections 6: e22. Doi: 10.1038/emi.2017.7

  18. Pileggi, SM, HR Jordan, JA Clennon, E Whitney, ME Benbow, RW Merritt, MD McIntosh, RK Kimbirauskus, PLC Small, D Boakye, C Quaye, J Qi, L Campbell, J Gronseth, E Ampadu, W Opare, and LA Waller (2017) Landscape and environmental influences on Mycobacterium ulcerans among aquatic sites in Ghana. PLoS ONE: e0176375 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176375

  19. Sanders, ML, HR Jordan, C Serewis-Pond, L Zheng, ME Benbow, PLC Small, and JK Tomberlin (2017) Mycobacterium ulcerans toxin, mycolactone may enhance host-seeking and oviposition behavior by Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae). Environmental Microbiology 19(5):1750-1760, doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13629.

  20. Fleischacker CL, Segura-Totten M, SEA-PHAGES 2016 Bioinformatics Workshop, Garlena RA, Jacobs-Sera D, Pope WH, Russell DA, and Hatfull GF (2017) Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium Phage CrystalP. Genome Announc. 5(28):e00542-17.

  21. Morris A., Guégan J.-F., Andreou D., Marsollier L., Carolan K., Le Croller M., Sanhueza D. and Gozlan R.E. (2016). Deforestation-driven food web collapse linked to emerging tropical disease, Mycobacterium ulcerans. Science Advances 2: e1600387.

  22. García-Peña G.E., Garchitorena A., Carolan K., Canard E., Prieur-Richard A.-H., Suzán G.A., Mills J.N., Roche B. and Guégan J.-F. (2016). Niche-based host extinction increases prevalence of an environmentally acquired pathogen. Oikos doi: 10.1111/oik.02700

  23. Sanhueza D, Chevillon C, Colwell R, Babonneau J, Marion E, Marsollier L, and Guégan JF (2016) Chitin promotes Mycobacterium ulcerans growth. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 92:fiw067

  24. Morris, A, JF Guegan, ME Benbow, H Williamson, PL Small, C Quaye, D Boakye, RM Merritt, and RE Gozlan. (2016) Functional Diversity as a New Framework for Understanding the Ecology of an Emerging Generalist Pathogen. Ecohealth 13(3), 570-581

  25. Meyin à Ebong S., Petit E., Le Gall P., Chen P.P., Nieser N., Guilbert E., Njiokou F., Marsollier J.-F., Guégan J.-F., Pluot-Sigwalt D., Eyangoh S. and Harry M. (2016). Molecular Species Delimitation and Morphology of Aquatic and Sub-Aquatic Bugs (Heteroptera) in Cameroon. PLoS One 11: e0154905.

  26. Campbell, LP, AO Finley, ME Benbow, J van Ravensway, PLC Small, R Christian Johnson, G Soppin, RM Merritt, H Williamson, and J Qi (2015) Spatial analysis of anthropogenic landscape disturbance and Buruli ulcer disease in Benin. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9(10): e0004123. doi:10.1371/journal.

  27. Pettersson, BF, S Das, PRK Behra, HR Jordan, M Ramesh, A Mallick, KM Root, MN Cheramie, IC Melara, PLC Small, S Dasgupta, DG Ennis, and LA Kirsebom (2015) Comparative sigma factor-mRNA levels in Mycobacterium marinum under stress conditions and during host infection. PloS ONE, 10(10).

  28. Jean K., Burnside W., Carlson L., Smith K.E., and Guégan J.-F. (2015). An “equilibrium theory” signature in the island biogeography of human parasites and pathogens. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25: 107-116.

  29. Meyin à Ebong S., Petit E., Le Gall P., Chen P.P., Nieser N., Guilbert E., Njiokou F., Marsollier J.-F., Guégan J.-F., Pluot-Sigwalt D., Eyangoh S. and Harry M. (2016). Molecular Species Delimitation and Morphology of Aquatic and Sub-Aquatic Bugs (Heteroptera) in Cameroon. PLoS One 11: e0154905.

  30. Garchitorena A., Ngonghala C.N., Landier J., Texier G., Landier J., Eyangoh S., Bonds M., Guégan J.-F. and Roche B. (2015). Environmental transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans drives dynamics of Buruli ulcer in endemic regions of Cameroon. Scientific Reports 5: 18055. Doi : 10.1038/srep18055.

  31. Garchitorena A., Ngonghala C.N., Guégan J.-F., Texier G., Bellanger M., Bonds M. and Roche B. (2015). Economic inequality caused by feedbacks between poverty and the dynamics of a rare tropical disease: the case of Buruli ulcer in sub-Saharan Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B-Biological Sciences 282: 20151426.

  32. Zogo B., Marion E., Carolan K., Babonneau J., Eyangoh S., Guégan J.-F., Djenontin A., and Marsollier L. (2015). A field study in Benin to investigate the role of mosquitoes and other flying insects in the ecology of Mycobacterium ulcerans. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9(7): e0003941. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003941.

  33. Flahault A., Schütte S., Guégan J.-F., Pascal M., Barouki R. and nine other signatories (2015). Health can help saving negotiation on climate change (letter). The Lancet 385: 49-50.

  34. Ezenwa V.O., Prieur-Richard A.-H., Roche B., Bailly X., Becquart P. , García-Peña G.E., Hosseini P.R. , Keesing F. , Rizzoli A. , Suzán G.A., Vignuzzi M., Vittecoq  M., Mills J.N., and Guégan J.-F. (2015). Interdisciplinarity and infectious diseases: an Ebola case study.  PLoS Pathogens 11(8): e1004992. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004992.

  35. Garchitorena A., Guégan J.-F., Léger L., Eyangoh S., Marsollier L., and Roche B. (2015). Mycobacterium ulcerans persistence and dynamics in African aquatic ecosystems are driven by the interplay between abiotic and biotic factors. eLife 4: e07616. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.07616.

  36. Landier J., Constantin de Magny G., Garchitorena A., Guégan J.-F., Gaudart J., Marsollier L., Le Gall P., Giles-Vernick T., Fontanet A., Eyangoh S. , Fontanet A., and Texier G. (2015). Seasonal Patterns of Buruli Ulcer Incidence, Central Africa, 2002–2012. Emerging Infectious Diseases 21(8): doi: 10.3201/eid2108.141336

  37. Suzan G., García-Peña G.E., Castro-Arellano I., Rico O., Rubio A.V., Tolsa M.J., Roche B., Hosseini P.R., Rizzoli A., Murray K.A., Zambrana-Torrelio C., Vittecoq M., Bailly X., Aguirre A.A., Daszak P., Prieur-Richard A.-H., Mills J.N., and Guégan J.-F. (2015). Metacommunity and phylogenetic structure determine wildlife and zoonotic infectious disease patterns in time and space. Ecology and Evolution 5:865-73. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1404.  

  38. Williamson, HR, L Mosi, R Donnell, M Aqqad, R Merritt, and P Small (2014) Mycobacterium ulcerans fails to infect through skin abrasions in a guinea pig infection model: Implications for transmission. PLoS NTD. 8(4):e2440.

  39. Williamson, HR, R Phillips, F Sarfo, and PLC Small (2014) Genetic diversity among PCR-positive, culture-negative and culture-positive Mycobacterium ulcerans isolated from Buruli ulcer patients in Ghana. PLoS ONE. 9(2):e88007

  40. McIntosh, MD, HR Williamson, ME Benbow, RK Kimbirauskus, C Quaye, D Boakye, PLC Small, and RW Merritt (2014) Associations between Mycobacterium ulcerans and aquatic plant communities of West Africa: implications for Buruli ulcer disease. EcoHealth 11(2):184-196. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-013-0898-3.

  41. Benbow, ME, RK Kimbirauskus, MD McIntosh, HR Williamson, C Quaye, D Boakye, PLC Small, and RW Merritt (2014). Aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages of Ghana, West Africa: understanding the ecology of Buruli ulcer disease. EcoHealth 11(2):168-183. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-013-0886-7

  42. Landier J., Gaudart J., Carolan K., Lo-Seen D., Guégan J.-F., Eyangoh S., Fontanet A. and Texier G. (2014). Spatio-temporal patterns and landscape-associated risk of Buruli ulcer in Akonolinga, Cameroon. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8 e3123.

  43. Carolan K., Garchitorena A., García-Peña G.E., Morris A., Landier J., Fontanet A., Le Gall P., Texier G., Marsollier L., Gozlan R.E., Eyangoh S., Lo-Seen D. and Guégan J.-F. (2014). Topography and land cover of watersheds predicts the distribution of the environmental pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans in aquatic insects. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8: e3298.

  44. Carolan K., Meyin à Ebong S., Garchitorena A., Landier J., Sanhueza D., Texier G., Marsollier L., Le Gall P., Guégan J.-F., and Lo Seen D. (2014). Ecological niche modelling of Hemipteran insects in Cameroon; the paradox of a vector-borne transmission for Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer. International Journal of Health Geographics 13: 44. http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/13/1/44

  45. Morris A., Gozlan R.E., Hassani H., Andreou D., Couppié P. and Guégan J.-F. (2014). Complex temporal climate signals drive the emergence of human water-borne disease. Nature Emerging Microbes & Infections 3: e56; doi:10.1038/emi.2014.56.

  46. Garchitorena A., Roche B., Kamgang R., Ossomba R., Babonneau J., Landier J., Fontanet A., Flahault A., Eyangoh S., Guégan J.-F. and Marsollier L. (2014) (3 derniers co-auteurs avec participation égale par ordre alphabétique). Mycobacterium ulcerans Ecological Dynamics and its Association with Freshwater Ecosystems and Aquatic Communities: Results from a 12-Month Environmental Survey in Cameroon. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8: e2879.

  47. Morris A., Gozlan R.E., Marion E., Marsollier L., Andreou D., Sanhueza D., Ruffine R., Couppié P. and Guégan J.-F. (2014). First detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans DNA in Environmental Samples from South America. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8: e2660.

  48. Hanf M., Guégan J.-F., Ahmed I., and Nacher M. (2014). Disentangling the complexity of infectious diseases: Time is ripe to improve the first-line statistical toolbox for epidemiologists. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 21: 497-505. DOI DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.09.006

  49. Roche, B, ME Benbow, RW Merritt, RK Kimbirauskas, MD McIntosh, PLC Small, HR Williamson, and J Guégan (2013) Identifying Achilles' heel of multi-host pathogens: the concept of keystone host illustrated by Mycobacterium ulcerans transmission. Environmental Research Letters 8(4):045009

  50. Roche B., Rohani P., Dobson A.P. and Guégan J.-F. (2013). Community organization may drive disease patterns for vector-borne pathogens. The American Naturalist 181: 1-11.

  51. Willson, SJ, M Kaufman, RW Merritt, HR Williamson, and ME Benbow (2013) Fish and amphibians as potential reservoirs of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer disease. Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 3: 10.3402/iee.v3i0.19946.

  52. van Ravensway, J, ME Benbow, AA Tsonis, S Pierce, LP Campbell, JAM Fyfe, JA Hayman, PDR Johnson, JR Wallace, and J Qi (2012) Climate and landscape factors associated with Buruli ulcer incidence in Victoria, Australia. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51074. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051074

  53. Williamson, HR, ME Benbow, LP Cambell, CR Johnson, G Sopoh, RW Merritt, and PLC Small (2012) Detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans in the environment predicts prevalence of Buruli ulcer in Benin. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 6(1): e1506. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001506

  54. Meyin à Ebong S., Eyangoh S., Marion E., Landier J., Marsollier L., Guégan J.-F. and Le Gall P. (2012). Survey of Water Bugs in Bankim, a New Buruli Ulcer Endemic Area in Cameroon. Journal of Tropical Medicine 2012, doi:10.1155/2012/123843.

  55. Roche B., Dobson A.P., Guégan J.-F. and Rohani P. (2012). Linking community and disease ecology: The impact of biodiversity on pathogen transmission. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, ser. B, 367: 2807-2813.

  56. Fremont-Rahl, JJ, C Ek, HR Williamson, PLC Small, JG Fox, and S. Muthupalani. (2011) Mycobacterium liflandii outbreak in a research colony of Xenopus tropicalis frogs. Vet Pathol. 48(4):856-67.

  57. Roche B. and Guégan J.-F. (2011). Ecosystem dynamics, biological diversity and emerging infectious diseases. Comptes Rendus Biologies 334: 385-392.

  58. Smith K.F. and Guégan J.-F. (2011). Changing geographic distributions of human pathogens. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 41: 231-250.

  59. Fyfe, JAM, CJ Lavender, KA Handasyde, AR Legione, CR O’Brien, TP Stinear, SJ Pidot, T Seemann, ME Benbow, JR Wallace, C McCowan, and PDR Johnson (2010) A major role for mammals in the ecology of Mycobacterium ulcerans. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 4(8):e791. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000791,

  60. Wallace, JR, MC Gordon, L Hartsell, L Mosi, ME Benbow, RW Merritt, and PLC Small (2010) Interaction of Mycobacterium ulcerans with mosquito species: implications for transmission and trophic relationships. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76(18):6215-6222.

  61. Merritt, RW, ED Walker, PLC Small, JR Wallace, PDR Johnson, ME Benbow, and DA Boakye (2010) Ecology and transmission of Buruli ulcer disease: a systematic review. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 4(12):e911. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000911

  62. Kim, HK, KL Jackson, Y Kishi, HR Williamson, L Mosi, and PLC Small. (2009) Heterogeneity in the stereochemistry of mycolactones isolated from M. marinum: toxins produced by fresh vs. saltwater fish pathogens. (2009) Chem. Commun 7402-7404.

  63. Guernier V. and Guégan J.-F. (2009). May Rapoport's Rule Apply to Human Associated Pathogens? EcoHealth 6: 509-521.

  64. Olson S.H., Gangnon R., Elguero E., Durieux L., Guégan J.-F. Foley J.A. and Patz J.A. (2009). Links between climate, malaria, and wetlands in the Amazon Basin. Emerging Infectious Diseases 15: 659-662.

  65. Lavender, CJ, TP Stinear, PDR Johnson, J Azuolas, ME Benbow, JR Wallace, and JAM Fyfe (2008) Application of VNTR typing to the identification of Mycobacterium ulcerans in environmental samples from Victoria, Australia. FEMS Microbiology Letters 287(2): 250-255.

  66. Williamson, HR, ME Benbow, KD Nguyen, DC Beachboard, RK Kimbirauskus, MD McIntosh, EO Ampadu, D Boakye, RW Merritt, and PLC Small (2008) Distribution of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Buruli ulcer endemic and non-endemic aquatic sites in Ghana. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2(3):e205. Doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000205

  67. Benbow, ME, HR Williamson, RK Kimbirauskus, MD McIntosh, R Kolar, C Quaye, F Akpabey, D Boakye, PLC Small, and RW Merritt (2008) Aquatic invertebrates as unlikely vectors of Buruli ulcer disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases 14(8): 1247-1254. doi: 10.3201/eid1408.071503

  68. Wagner, T, ME Benbow, M Burns, RW Merritt, J Qi, PLC Small, and C Johnson (2008) A landscape-based model for predicting Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer Disease) presence/absence in Benin, West Africa. EcoHealth 5:69-79. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-007-0148-7. PMID: 18648799 (Benbow & Wagner contributed equally).

  69. Mosi, L, Williamson HR, Wallace JR, Merritt RW, and Small PLC (2008) Persistent association of Mycobacterium ulcerans with African predaceous insects of the family belostomatidae. Appl Environ Microbiol. 74(22):7036-42.

  70. Morand S. and Guégan J.-F. (2008). How the biodiversity sciences may aid biological tools and ecological engineering to assess the impact of climate changes. Revue scientifique et technique de l’office international des épizooties 27: 355-366.

  71. Roche B., Guégan J.-F. and Bousquet F. (2008). Multi-agent systems in epidemiology: A first step for computational biology in the study of vector-borne disease transmission. BMC BioInformatics 9: 435. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-435.

  72. Brou T., Broutin H., Elguero E., Assé H. and Guégan J.-F. (2008). Landscape diversity related to Buruli Ulcer disease in Côte d'Ivoire. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2(7): e271.

  73. Godfrey, D, HR Williamson, PLC Small, and J Silverman (2007) Newly Identified Mycobacterium Species in Xenopus laevis Colony. Comp Med. 57(1): 97-104.

  74. Smith K.F., Sax D.F., Gaines S.D., Guernier V. and Guégan J.-F. (2007). Globalization of Human Infectious Diseases. Ecology 88: 1903-1910.

  75. Merritt, RW, ME Benbow, and PLC Small (2005) Unraveling an emerging disease associated with disturbed aquatic environments: the case of Buruli ulcer. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3(6): 323-331. (Benbow & Merritt contributed equally)

 

Books & Chapters

  1. Benbow, ME, R Simmonds, RW Merritt, and HR Jordan (2017) Buruli ulcer: case study of a neglected tropical disease. In: Advances in Environmental Microbiology, Volume 4: Modeling the transmission and prevention of infectious disease. CJ Hurst (Ed), Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 105-149.

  2. Benbow, ME, BS Hall, L Mosi, S Roberts, R Simmonds, and HR Williamson-Jordan (2016) Mycobacterium ulcerans and Buruli ulcer. In: Human Emerging and Re-Emerging Infections: Bacterial & Mycotic Infections, Volume II, First Edition. SK Singh (Ed), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New Jersey, pp. 841-861.

  3. Qi, J, L Campbell, J van Ravensway, AO Finley, RW Merritt, and ME Benbow (2013) Buruli ulcer disease: the unknown environmental and social ecology of an environmental pathogen. In: Ecologies and Politics of Health. BH King and KA Crews (Eds.). Taylor and Francis Books, London. Vol 41:75-97.

  4. Johnson, PDR, C Demangel, TP Stinear, ME Benbow, and JAM Fyfe (2010) Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) – still mysterious. In: Emerging Infections 9. WM Michael, ML Grayson, JM Hughes (Eds.). ASM Press, Washington DC.