Martin Bienvenu Somda1,2, Jacques Kaboré3,4, Sheila Médina Karambiri5, Emilie Dama3, Charlie Franck Alfred Compaoré4, Ernest Wendemanedgé Salou3,4, Hamidou Ilboudo6, Isidore Houaga7, Fabrice Courtin8, Adrien Marie Gaston Belem3, Vincent Jamonneau8, Zakaria Bengaly4. 1. Université Nazi Boni (UNB), 01 BP 1 091, Bobo-Dioulasso 01, Burkina Faso. somdabienvenu@yahoo.fr. 2. Centre International de Recherche-Développement sur l'Elevage en Zone Subhumide (CIRDES), 01 BP 454, Bobo-Dioulasso 01, Burkina Faso. somdabienvenu@yahoo.fr. 3. Université Nazi Boni (UNB), 01 BP 1 091, Bobo-Dioulasso 01, Burkina Faso. 4. Centre International de Recherche-Développement sur l'Elevage en Zone Subhumide (CIRDES), 01 BP 454, Bobo-Dioulasso 01, Burkina Faso. 5. Centre Universitaire de Ziniaré, Université Joseph KI-ZERBO, 03 BP 7021, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso. 6. Institut de Recherche en Sciences de La Santé (IRSS), Unité de Recherche Clinique de Nanoro (URCN), 11 BP 218, Ouagadougou CMS 11, Burkina Faso. 7. Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH), Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK. 8. Unité Mixte de Recherche IRD-CIRAD 177, INTERTRYP, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université de Montpellier, 34398, Montpellier, France.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The boom in Burkina Faso's artisanal gold mining since 2007 has attracted populations from Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea, which are the West African countries most affected by human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) and therefore increases its risk of re-emergence. Our aim was to update the HAT data in Burkina Faso in the risk of the re-emergence context with the advent of artisanal gold mining. METHODS: The study was carried out in the southwestern Burkina Faso where entomological surveys were conducted using biconical traps in March 2017. Follow by an active medical survey in April 2017, which was targeted the gold panners in 7 villages closer to artisanal gold sites, using CATT, mini-anion exchange centrifugation technique, trypanolysis test (TL) and ELISA test to measure human/tsetse contacts. The buffy coat technique and the TL were also applied in pigs to check their reservoir role of human trypanosomes. RESULTS: Our results have shown no case of HAT among 958 individuals tested and all the 50 pigs were also negative, but the level of antibodies against tsetse saliva evidenced by ELISA revealed low human/tsetse contact. Moreover, gold panners practise agriculture and breeding in an infected tsetse area, which are increased the risk. CONCLUSION: Our results illustrate that the risk of re-emergence is low. The passive surveillance system implemented in 2015 in southwestern Burkina Faso is needed to increase the sentinel sites to better cover this area by taking into account the gold mining. Finally, awareness-raising activities are needed among populations about HAT.
PURPOSE: The boom in Burkina Faso's artisanal gold mining since 2007 has attracted populations from Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea, which are the West African countries most affected by human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) and therefore increases its risk of re-emergence. Our aim was to update the HAT data in Burkina Faso in the risk of the re-emergence context with the advent of artisanal gold mining. METHODS: The study was carried out in the southwestern Burkina Faso where entomological surveys were conducted using biconical traps in March 2017. Follow by an active medical survey in April 2017, which was targeted the gold panners in 7 villages closer to artisanal gold sites, using CATT, mini-anion exchange centrifugation technique, trypanolysis test (TL) and ELISA test to measure human/tsetse contacts. The buffy coat technique and the TL were also applied in pigs to check their reservoir role of human trypanosomes. RESULTS: Our results have shown no case of HAT among 958 individuals tested and all the 50 pigs were also negative, but the level of antibodies against tsetse saliva evidenced by ELISA revealed low human/tsetse contact. Moreover, gold panners practise agriculture and breeding in an infected tsetse area, which are increased the risk. CONCLUSION: Our results illustrate that the risk of re-emergence is low. The passive surveillance system implemented in 2015 in southwestern Burkina Faso is needed to increase the sentinel sites to better cover this area by taking into account the gold mining. Finally, awareness-raising activities are needed among populations about HAT.
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