1. Leptospirosis in French Guiana and the Guiana shield: Current knowledge in 2016
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Alain Berlioz-Arthaud, P. Le Turnier, F. Djossou, M. Demar, Pascale Bourhy, Mathieu Picardeau, Yann Reynaud, Emilie Mosnier, Loïc Epelboin, Cécile Richard-Hansen, Mathieu Nacher, Gabriel Carles, Roxane Schaub, B. de Thoisy, Ecosystemes Amazoniens et Pathologie Tropicale (EPat), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Guyane (UG), Université de Guyane (UG), Centre National de Référence de la Leptospirose - National Reference Center Leptospirosis (CNR), Institut Pasteur [Paris], Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon [Cayenne, Guyane Française], Centre d'Investigation Clinique Antilles-Guyane (CIC - Antilles Guyane), CHU de Fort de France-Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon [Cayenne, Guyane Française]-CHU Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes [Guadeloupe] -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG), Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Unité de la Tuberculose et des Mycobactéries - WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Laboratoire des Interactions Virus-Hôtes [Cayenne, Guyane Française], Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, Centre Hospitalier de l'Ouest Guyanais, Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, Unité des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicale, Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), and Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes [Guadeloupe] -CHU de Fort de France-Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon [Cayenne, Guyane Française]
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Latin Americans ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,030231 tropical medicine ,030106 microbiology ,Q fever ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Leptospira ,[SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases ,parasitic diseases ,medicine ,biology ,Amazon rainforest ,Public health ,Zoonosis ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Leptospirosis ,3. Good health ,Geography ,Ethnology ,Malaria ,[SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology - Abstract
International audience; Leptospirosis is a cosmopolitan zoonosis caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira. Whether the distribution is worldwide, the hot and humid climate of the tropics is particularly conducive to its expansion. In most French overseas departments and territories, leptospirosis is considered as a public health problem. In French Guiana, a French department located in the northeastern part of the Amazon rainforest, it is supposed to be rare. The objective of this review was to make an inventory of the knowledge on human and animal leptospirosis in French Guiana and neighboring countries. A comprehensive search was conducted through the indexed and informal medical literature in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Thus, respectively ten and four publications were identified on human and animal leptospirosis in French Guiana, published between 1940 and 1995 in the form of case reports or case series. The publications concerning this disease in the other countries of the Guiana Shield, eastern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazilian state of Amapá, also scarce or nonexistent. However recent data from the French National Centre of leptospirosis showed a recent and sudden increase in the number of cases in the department, probably partly due to the development of diagnostic tools such as Elisa IgM serology. It is likely that leptospirosis is a neglected disease in the region, due to the lack of diagnostic tools readily available, the lack of knowledge of the local clinicians on this disease and the existence of many other pathogens with similar clinical presentation such as malaria, arboviruses and Q fever and Amazonian toxoplasmosis. The establishment of more large-scale studies on animal and human leptospirosis is necessary and urgent to know the true burden of this disease in our region.
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- 2017
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