@article{fdi:010070263,
  title = {{E}cology and feeding habits drive infection of water bugs with {M}ycobacterium ulcerans},
  author = {{E}bong, {S}. {M}. {A}. and {G}arcia-{P}ena, {G}. {E}. and {P}luot-{S}igwalt, {D}. and {M}arsollier, {L}. and {L}e {G}all, {P}hilippe and {E}yangoh, {S}. and {G}u{\'e}gan, {J}ean-{F}ran{\c{c}}ois},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{M}ycobacterium ulcerans ({MU}), the causative agent of {B}uruli ulcer, is present in a wide spectrum of environments, including terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in tropical regions. {T}he most promising studies on the epidemiological risk of this disease suggest that some ecological settings may favor infection of animals with {MU} including human. {A} species' needs and impacts on resources and the environment, i.e., its ecological niche, may influence its susceptibility to be infected by this microbial form. {F}or example, some {N}aucoridae may dive in fresh waters to prey upon infected animals and thus may get infected with {MU}. {H}owever, these studies have rarely considered that inference on the ecological settings favoring infection and transmission may be confounded because host carrier sister species have similar ecological niches, and potentially the same host-microbe interactions. {H}ence, a relationship between the ecological niche of {N}aucoridae and its infection with {MU} may be due to a symbiotic relationship between the host and the pathogen, rather than its ecological niche. {T}o account for this confounding effect, we investigated the relationships between surrogates of the ecological niche of water bug species and their susceptibility to {MU}, by performing phylogenetic comparative analyses on a large dataset of 11 families of water bugs collected in 10 different sites across {C}ameroon, central {A}frica. {O}ur results indicate that {MU} circulates and infects a couple of host taxa, i.e., {B}elostomatidae, {N}aucoridae, living both in the aquatic vegetation and as predators inside the trophic network and sister species of water bugs have indeed similar host-microbe interactions with {MU}.},
  keywords = {{H}emiptera ; {M}ycobacterium ulcerans ; {B}uruli ulcer ; disease ecology ; {CAMEROUN}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{E}cohealth},
  volume = {14},
  numero = {2},
  pages = {329--341},
  ISSN = {1612-9202},
  year = {2017},
  DOI = {10.1007/s10393-017-1228-y},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010070263},
}