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Surveillance of dengue fever in French Guiana by monitoring the results of negative malaria diagnoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2000

A. TALARMIN
Affiliation:
Institut Pasteur de la Guyane française, Cayenne, French Guiana
C. PENEAU
Affiliation:
Hôpital André Bouron, Saint-Laurent du Maroni, French Guiana
P. DUSSART
Affiliation:
Institut Pasteur de la Guyane française, Cayenne, French Guiana
F. PFAFF
Affiliation:
Institut Pasteur de la Guyane française, Cayenne, French Guiana
M. COURCIER
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Analyses Médicales, Kourou, French Guiana
B. DE ROCCA-SERRA
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Analyses Médicales, Kourou, French Guiana
J. L. SARTHOU
Affiliation:
Institut Pasteur de la Guyane française, Cayenne, French Guiana
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Abstract

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Surveillance of dengue fever is mainly based on specific laboratory tests. However non-specific systems, such as clinical surveillance, are also required. In French Guiana, we have tested a non-specific laboratory surveillance system where different biological examinations performed for other reasons than the diagnosis of dengue fever were analysed as methods for dengue fever surveillance. The number of negative malaria diagnoses in Cayenne and Kourou was found to be the best indicator of dengue fever infections in these towns. This surveillance system appears to be very simple and reliable, and a test which could serve as an indicator that is likely to be found everywhere.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press