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Mineralogical Magazine; October 2005; v. 69; no. 5; p. 707-717; DOI: 10.1180/0026461056950282
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Spatial relationship between arsenic in drinking water and Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in the Amansie West district, Ghana

A. A. Duker1,*, E. J. M. Carranza1 and M. Hale1

1 International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, The Netherlands

* E-mail: duker{at}itc.nl

This paper hypothesizes that arsenic in drinking water indirectly contributes to Buruli ulcer (BU), a skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU) infection. Samples of groundwater and surface water used as drinking water by the population in Ghana’s Amansie West district (part of which has a high prevalence of BU), were collected near rural settlements and analysed for arsenic. Arsenic concentration levels per settlement were compared with BU prevalence. A positive exposure-response relationship was obtained between arsenic in surface water and BU (r2 = 0.82). However, there is no significant exposure-response relation between groundwater and BU.

KEYWORDS: surface water, groundwater, arsenic, Mycobacterium ulcerans, Buruli ulcer




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