Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2011)

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

  • Benjamin Queyriaux,
  • Gaëtan Texier,
  • Lénaïck Ollivier,
  • Laurent Galoisy-Guibal,
  • Rémy Michel,
  • Jean-Baptiste Meynard,
  • Christophe Decam,
  • Catherine Verret,
  • Vincent Pommier de Santi,
  • André Spiegel,
  • Jean-Paul Boutin,
  • René Migliani,
  • Xavier Deparis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1707.100009
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 7
pp. 1280 – 1282

Abstract

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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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