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Volume 22, Number 2—February 2016
Letter

Malaria in French Guiana Linked to Illegal Gold Mining

Vincent Pommier de SantiComments to Author , Aissata Dia, Antoine Adde, Georges Hyvert, Julien Galant, Michel Mazevet, Christophe Nguyen, Samuel B. Vezenegho, Isabelle Dusfour, Romain Girod, and Sébastien Briolant
Author affiliations: Army Center of Epidemiology and Public Health, Marseille, France (V. Pommier de Santi, A. Dia); Direction Interarmées du Service de Santé en Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana (V. Pommier de Santi, G. Hyvert, J. Galant, M. Mazevet, C. Nguyen, S. Briolant); Institut Pasteur, Cayenne (A. Adde, C. Nguyen, S.B. Vezenegho, I. Dusfour, R. Girod, S. Briolant); Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France (C. Nguyen, S. Briolant)

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Geographic distribution of presumed places of exposure for 742 single-infection Plasmodium vivax (586) and P. falciparum (156) malaria cases reported among French Armed Forces in French Guiana, 2008–2014. Numbers on map show illegal gold mining sites where entomologic investigations were conducted; 1 indicates Eau Claire; 2 indicates Dagobert.

Figure. Geographic distribution of presumed places of exposure for 742 single-infection Plasmodium vivax (586) and P. falciparum (156) malaria cases reported among French Armed Forces in French Guiana, 2008–2014. Numbers on map show illegal gold mining sites where entomologic investigations were conducted; 1 indicates Eau Claire; 2 indicates Dagobert.

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