Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Chloroquine-Resistant Malaria in Travelers Returning from Haiti after 2010 Earthquake

Myriam Gharbi

, Dylan R. Pillai, Rachel Lau, Véronique Hubert, Krishna Khairnar, Alexandre Existe, Eric Kendjo, Sabina Dahlström, Philippe J. Guérin, Jacques Le Bras, and members of the French National Reference Center for Imported Malaria Study

Author affiliations: Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France (M. Gharbi, J. Le Bras); École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, Rennes, France (M. Gharbi, P.J. Guérin); Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network, Paris (M. Gharbi, S. Dahlström, J. Le Bras); Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (D.R. Pillai, R. Lau, K. Khairnar); University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta, Canada (D.R. Pillai); Hospital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris (V. Hubert, J. Le Bras); Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (A. Existe); Centre National de Référence Paludisme, Paris (V. Hubert, E. Kendjo, J. La Bras); Hospital Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris (E. Kendjo); Université Pierre et Marie-Curie-Paris VI, Paris (E. Kendjo); Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network, Oxford, UK (P.J. Guérin); Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford (P.J. Guérin); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (P.J. Guérin); and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris (P.J. Guérin)

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Figure 1

Surveillance during 23 years for antimalarial drug resistance in travelers returning to France and Canada from Haiti after the January 10, 2010, earthquake. A) Imported malaria cases from Haiti reported in France (1988–2010) and Canada (2007–2010). B) Total number of Plasmodium falciparum infections, by month, 2009 and 2010.

Figure 1. . . Surveillance during 23 years for antimalarial drug resistance in travelers returning to France and Canada from Haiti after the January 10, 2010, earthquake. A) Imported malaria cases from Haiti reported in France (1988–2010) and Canada (2007–2010). B) Total number of Plasmodium falciparum infections, by month, 2009 and 2010.

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¹Members of the French National Reference Center for Imported Malaria Study who contributed data are listed at the end of this article.

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