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. 2009 Apr;15(4):668-71.
doi: 10.3201/eid1504.080891.

Concurrent dengue and malaria in Cayenne Hospital, French Guiana

Bernard Carme  1 , Severine Matheus, Gerd Donutil, Olivia Raulin, Mathieu Nacher, Jacques Morvan
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Concurrent dengue and malaria in Cayenne Hospital, French Guiana

Bernard Carme et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Apr.

Abstract

Dengue-malaria co-infection reports are scarce. Of 1,723 consecutive febrile patients in Cayenne Hospital, 238 had dengue (174 early dengue fever cases) and 393 had malaria (371 acute malaria); 17 had both. Diagnosis of 1 of these 2 infections should not rule out testing for the other infection.

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Comparison of confirmed cases of dengue fever and of symptomatic malaria in patients examined at the emergency department of Cayenne Hospital, Cayenne, French Guiana, January 2004–March 2006. The black frame corresponds to the period of the retrospective study (July 2004–June 2005). *Cases confirmed by positive test results from reverse transcription–PCR or virus isolation (Pasteur Institute, Cayenne). †Cases diagnosed based on recorded fever or history of fever in the previous 24 h associated with microscopic detection of asexual forms of Plasmodium spp. by blood smear.
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