Malaria Hyperendemicity and Risk for Artemisinin Resistance among Illegal Gold Miners, French Guiana.

Vincent Pommier de Santi (1, 2) , Félix Djossou (1, 3) , Nicolas Barthes (1) , Herve Bogreau (1, 4, 5) , Georges Hyvert (1) , Christophe Nguyen (1, 5) , Stephane Pelleau (6) , Eric Legrand (6, 7) , Lise Musset (6) , Mathieu Nacher (8) , Sebastien Briolant (1, 4, 5)

1 Direction Interarmées du Service de Santé en Guyane
2 Centre d'épidémiologie et de santé publique des armées
3 UMIT - Unité des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales
4 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
5 Institut Pasteur de la Guyane
6 CNR - Centre National de Référence du Paludisme [Cayenne, Guyane française]
7 Génétique et Génomique des Insectes vecteurs
8 CIC - Antilles Guyane - Centre d'Investigation Clinique Antilles-Guyane

To assess the prevalence of malaria among illegal gold miners in the French Guiana rainforest, we screened 205 miners during May-June 2014. Malaria prevalence was 48.3%; 48.5% of cases were asymptomatic. Patients reported self-medication with artemisinin-based combination therapy. Risk for emergence and spread of artemisinin resistance among gold miners in the rainforest is high.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Parasitology

Vincent Pommier de Santi, Félix Djossou, Nicolas Barthes, Herve Bogreau, Georges Hyvert, et al.. Malaria Hyperendemicity and Risk for Artemisinin Resistance among Illegal Gold Miners, French Guiana.. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016, 22 (5), pp.903-6. ⟨10.3201/eid2205.151957⟩. ⟨pasteur-01305106⟩