Malaria in French Guiana Linked to Illegal Gold Mining

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 344-346

  de Santi, Vincent Pommier ^a,b,e   Dia, Aissata ^a   Adde, Antoine ^c   Hyvert, Georges ^b   Galant, Julien ^b   Mazevet, Michel ^b   Nguyen, Christophe ^b,c,d   Vezenegho, Samuel B ^c   Dusfour, Isabelle ^c   Girod, Romain ^c   Briolant, Sébastien ^b,c,d  

^a French Military Center for Epidemiology and Public Health   (France)

^b Direction Interarmées du Service de Santé en Guyane Quartier la Madeleine   (French Guiana)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE BIOMÉDICALE DES ARMÉES   (France)

^e Camp Militaire de Sainte Marthe   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FRENCH GUIANA; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; ILLEGAL GOLD MINING; LETTER; MALARIA; MINING; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; PARASITOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

GOLD;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FRENCH GUIANA; GEOGRAPHY; GOLD; HUMANS; MALARIA; MINING;

EID: 84955143135     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/EID2202.151292     Document Type: Letter

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