Volume 17, Number 7—July 2011
Dispatch
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, and Xavier Deparis
, 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, and Xavier DeparisTable
Cases of Plasmodium spp. malaria among French Armed Forces, French Guiana, 1998–2008*
| Year | Species |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. falciparum | P. vivax | P. malariae | P. ovale | Unknown | |
| 1998 | 41 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1999 | 56 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2000 | 36 | 48 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 2001 | 7 | 38 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 19 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2003 | 54 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 22 | 72 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2005 | 50 | 158 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2006 | 29 | 123 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2007 | 20 | 137 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 44 | 221 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
*Cases of malaria caused by 2 parasites (co-infections) were included for each involved species.
