1. Yellow fever cases in French Guiana, evidence of an active circulation in the Guiana Shield, 2017 and 2018
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Luisiane Carvalho, Alice Sanna, Antoine Enfissi, Claire Mayence, Claire-Marie Cazaux, Hatem Kallel, Dominique Rousset, Audrey Andrieu, Marina Hachouf, Philippe Tabard, Health Regional Agency [Cayenne], Cellule Inter Régionale d'Epidémiologie des Antilles - Guyane, Institut de Veille Sanitaire (INVS), Cellule Interrégionale d'Epidémiologie Antilles-Guyane, Cellule interrégionale d'épidémiologie Antilles-Guyane [CIRE], Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon [Cayenne, Guyane Française], Rôle des canaux ioniques membranaires et du calcium intracellulaire dans la psysiopathologie de la prostate, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut pluridisciplinaire de recherche appliquée dans le domaine du génie pétrolier (IPRADDGP), Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Biologie, Unité de Biochimie des Lipides et des Protéines, Faculté des Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles de Tunis (FST), Université de Tunis El Manar (UTM)-Université de Tunis El Manar (UTM), Institut Pluridisciplinaire de recherche appliquée en génie pétrolier (IPRA), Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), and ROUSSET, Dominique
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0301 basic medicine ,Adult ,Male ,Vaccination Coverage ,Epidemiology ,030231 tropical medicine ,[SDV.BBM.BM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Molecular biology ,Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,French overseas region ,[SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases ,Virology ,Yellow Fever ,medicine ,Humans ,Circulation (currency) ,Public Health Surveillance ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,[SDV.MP.VIR] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology ,[SDV.MHEP.ME] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases ,[SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases ,Travel ,Yellow fever ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,[SDV.BBM.BM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Molecular biology ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,3. Good health ,French Guiana ,Vaccination ,030104 developmental biology ,Geography ,Latin America ,[SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,Vaccination coverage ,Population Surveillance ,[SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology ,[SDV.MHEP.MI] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases ,[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,Female ,Yellow fever virus ,Brazil ,Demography - Abstract
French Guiana (FG) is a French overseas region bordering Brazil and Suriname that is considered endemic for yellow fever (YF); vaccination is compulsory for residents and travellers. In August 2017 and 2018, two sporadic YF cases were notified 1 year apart, confirming that sylvatic YF virus circulation is active in the region. YF vaccination coverage should be closely monitored and improved in FG and neighbouring territories and clinicians should be aware of the risk.
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- 2018
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