Q Fever in French Guiana: Tip of the Iceberg or Epidemiological Exception?

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 May 5;10(5):e0004598. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004598. eCollection 2016 May.

Loïc Epelboin^{1

2}, Mathieu Nacher^{2

3}, Aba Mahamat¹, Vincent Pommier de Santi^{4

5}, Alain Berlioz-Arthaud⁶, Carole Eldin⁷, Philippe Abboud¹, Sébastien Briolant^{4

5

6}, Emilie Mosnier^{1

2}, Margarete do Socorro Mendonça Gomes⁸, Stephen G Vreden⁹, Magalie Pierre-Demar^{2

10}, Marcus Lacerda¹¹, Didier Raoult⁷, Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos¹², Félix Djossou^{1

2}

¹ Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, Centre Hospitalier Andrée-Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana.
² Ecosystèmes amazoniens et pathologie tropicale (EPAT), EA3593, Université de la Guyane, French Guiana.
³ Centre d'Investigation Clinique, CIC Inserm 1424, Centre Hospitalier Andrée-Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana.
⁴ Army Center of Epidemiology and Public Health, Marseille, France.
⁵ Direction Interarmées du Service de Santé en Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana.
⁶ Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana.
⁷ Aix-Marseille Université, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, Marseille, France.
⁸ Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública do Amapá, Macapa, Amapá, Brazil.
⁹ Academisch Ziekenhuis Paramaribo Hospital, Paramaribo, Suriname.
¹⁰ Laboratoire Hospitalo-Universitaire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Centre Hospitalier Andrée-Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana.
¹¹ Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Viera Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
¹² Laboratório de Hantaviroses e Rickettsioses Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/IOC-Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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