Plasmodium vivax Malaria among Military Personnel, French Guiana, 1998–2008

We obtained health surveillance epidemiologic data on malaria among French military personnel deployed to French Guiana during 1998–2008. Incidence of Plasmodium vivax malaria increased and that of P. falciparum remained stable. This new epidemiologic situation has led to modification of malaria tre...

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Autores principales: Queyriaux, Benjamin, Texier, Gaëtan, Ollivier, Lénaïck, Galoisy-Guibal, Laurent, Michel, Rémy, Meynard, Jean-Baptiste, Decam, Christophe, Verret, Catherine, Pommier de Santi, Vincent, Spiegel, André, Boutin, Jean-Paul, Migliani, René, Deparis, Xavier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3381416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21762587
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1707.100009
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Sumario:We obtained health surveillance epidemiologic data on malaria among French military personnel deployed to French Guiana during 1998–2008. Incidence of Plasmodium vivax malaria increased and that of P. falciparum remained stable. This new epidemiologic situation has led to modification of malaria treatment for deployed military personnel.

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