French Guiana
Is dengue and malaria co infection more severe than single infections? A retrospective matched pair study in French Guiana
... [6,7], French Guiana [8] and Brazil ...in French Guiana, a retrospective study performed in 2004–2005 on 1,723 consecutive febrile emer- gency patients found 17 co-infections, including six ...
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Predictors of abnormal cytology among HPV-infected women in remote territories of French Guiana
... in French Guiana, our ra- tionale was that women with abnormal cytology may have had particular characteristics or particular HPV genotypes relative to those with normal ...
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Temporal trend of the proportion of patients presenting with advanced HIV in French Guiana: stuck on the asymptote?
... These data show historical trends in French Guiana and some of the explanatory variables. However, these meas- ures may be crude reflections of real life situation. In addition, the present results may not ...
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Intratidal and Subtidal Circulation in a Tropical Estuary during Wet Season: The Maroni, French Guiana
... (French Guiana coast) to the western bank (Suriname coast) of the estuary with measurements directly linked with a Garmin GPS for navigation and to correct for boat heading and ...
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High mortality due to congenital malformations in children aged < 1 year in French Guiana
... a French territory where infant mortality is much higher than in mainland France [24] and where child development and failure in school are also of great concern [25], longitudinal studies should be funded to ...
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Frequency and distribution of mixed Plasmodium falciparum vivax infections in French Guiana between 2000 and 2008
... Although errors in species identification are rare, it is common to miss mixed species infections by the micro- scopic examination of blood smears, particularly when one of the species is predominant in the patient’s ...
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Factors associated with sexual risk taking behavior by precarious urban migrants in French Guiana
... The data were collected from an anonymous structured questionnaire of 108 questions, translated into five languages (French, English, Portuguese, Spanish and Haitian Creole) and administered in an individual ...
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The problem of suicide among Amerindians in Camopi Trois Sauts, French Guiana 2008–2015
... in French Guiana for a total population of 246,507 inhabitants, thus corresponding to a suicide rate of ...in French Guiana. The population in French Guiana is very diverse in ...
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The genus Nematopus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae) of French Guiana with a description of one new species
... Material examined. FRENCH GUIANA: 4 3 , Point de vue du Belvedere de Saül, 250 m a.s.l., 3°37′22″N 53°12′34″W, 30.xi.2010, 4.–17.i.2011, 30.xi.2011, 10.–24.xii.2011, S. Brulle, P. H. Dalens, and S. ...
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Genetic diversity of msp3α and msp1 b5 markers of Plasmodium vivax in French Guiana
... In French Guiana, 11 different msp3a genotypes were identified among 109 samples and 13.8% had mixed-spe- cies infections. Polyclonal infections were thus less fre- quent than described by Bruce et al and ...
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Palikur traditional roundwood construction in eastern French Guiana: ethnobotanical and cultural perspectives
... Like the Palikur, the Brazilian Waimiri-Atroari make posts from Minquartia guianensis (Olacaceae) [44, 62] due to its very high resistance to rot and to xylophagous insects. Its use is also mentioned among the Shuar [8] ...
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Prevalence of Plasmodium spp in illegal gold miners in French Guiana in 2015: a hidden but critical malaria reservoir
... Capability of malaria transmission implies the presence of gametocytes in the blood. In this study, the PCR used did not allow differentiation of sexual from asexual forms, but several studies showed that asymptomatic ...
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Efficacy in the treatment of malaria by Plasmodium vivax in Oiapoque, Brazil, on the border with French Guiana: the importance of control over external factors
... characteristics, such as climate and hydrography, which are associated with movement of the Anopheles vector, contribute to maintenance of transmission of this dis- ease in this area, which is considered as hypo- to ...
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Investigation of a possible malaria epidemic in an illegal gold mine in French Guiana: an original approach in the remote Amazonian forest
... with geographical and regulatory issues in this very particular context, a new strategy called “Malakit” is currently tested as a pilot project in collaboration with Suriname and Brazil [19], mostly funded by European ...
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Sub Saharan red cell antigen phenotypes and glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency variants in French Guiana
... The present study aims to partially tackle this issue with original data from a well-defined population from French Guiana assumed to carry sub-Saharan genetic polymor- phisms. For this aim, the Noir Marron ...
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Absence of correlation between ex vivo susceptibility to doxycycline and pfteQ–pfmdt gene polymorphism in French Guiana
... Doxycycline is currently the only anti-malarial drug for which no P. falciparum treatment failure has been doc- umented. The distribution of ex vivo susceptibility to doxycycline in French Guiana divided ...
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Environmental, entomological, socioeconomic and behavioural risk factors for malaria attacks in Amerindian children of Camopi, French Guiana
... Anopheles darlingi human biting rate was correlated to the malaria incidence rate in children one month later. This is consistent with what was previously found in cor- relating entomological data with malaria incidence ...
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Aboveground biomass mapping in French Guiana by combining remote sensing, forest inventories and environmental data
... An approach for AGB mapping over the tropical forest of French Guiana was presented. This approach was based on the merging of in situ AGB estimates, GLAS AGB estimates and ancillary data (optical, radar ...
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Complex malaria epidemiology in an international border area between Brazil and French Guiana: challenges for elimination
... epidemiological risk. The disease is seasonal in that the period of highest transmission occurs between September and December. Between 2003 and 2015, eight outbreaks were identified, with one of these lasting 15 months ...
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Severe Acquired Toxoplasmosis in Immunocompetent Adult Patients in French Guiana
... in French Guiana, but all attempts to isolate oocysts from stools collected in the natural environment, which are difficult to find, have failed so ...in French Guiana (16) also suggested that ...
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