@article{fdi:010058987,
  title = {{L}ooking for {T}ropheryma whipplei source and reservoir in rural {S}enegal},
  author = {{K}eita, {A}. {K}. and {M}ediannikov, {O}leg and {R}atmanov, {P}avel and {D}iatta, {G}. and {B}assene, {H}. and {R}oucher, {C}l{\'e}mentine and {T}all, {A}. and {S}okhna, {C}heikh and {T}rape, {J}ean-{F}ran{\c{c}}ois and {R}aoult, {D}idier and {F}enollar, {F}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}ropheryma whipplei, the bacterium linked to {W}hipple's disease, is involved in acute infections and asymptomatic carriage. {I}n rural {S}enegal, the prevalence of {T}. whipplei is generally high but is not homogeneous throughout households in the same village. {W}e studied environmental samples collected in two {S}enegalese villages and conducted the survey to investigate the difference between households. {O}verall, the comparison between five households with very high {T}. whipplei prevalence and three households without any registered cases showed that the only difference was the presence of toilets in the latter (1/5 versus 3/3; {P} = 0.01423). {A}mong the 1,002 environmental specimens (including domestic and synanthropic animals and dust sampled in households) tested for {T}. whipplei {DNA}, only four specimens were slightly positive. {H}umans are currently the predominant identified reservoir and source of {T}. whipplei in these populations. {L}imited access to toilets and exposure to human feces facilitate the fecal-oral transmission of {T}. whipplei.},
  keywords = {{SENEGAL}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{A}merican {J}ournal of {T}ropical {M}edicine and {H}ygiene},
  volume = {88},
  numero = {2},
  pages = {339--343},
  ISSN = {0002-9637},
  year = {2013},
  DOI = {10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0614},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010058987},
}