Publications by authors named "Mireille Victorine Noah Tsanga"
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- * Conducted in Cameroon, the research included 443 participants, revealing a 30.3% prevalence of HD in ulcers and 8.6% in asymptomatic individuals, while Treponema pallidum (TP) was found at a lower rate of 5.2%.
- * Risk factors included gender parity in HD ulcer cases and physical proximity to confirmed cases, with findings indicating that HD is the most common cause of skin ulcers in the studied areas, warranting further research into asymptomatic carriage and disease transmission. *
Outbreaks of yaws-like ulcerative skin lesions in children are frequently reported in tropical and sub-tropical countries. The origin of these lesions might be primarily traumatic or infectious; in the latter case, Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, the yaws agent, and Haemophilus ducreyi, the agent of chancroid, are two of the pathogens commonly associated with the aetiology of skin ulcers. In this work, we investigated the presence of T.
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