Predictors of antimalarial self-medication in illegal gold miners in French Guiana: a pathway towards artemisinin resistance

Douine, Maylis; Lazrek, Yassamine; Blanchet, Denis; Pelleau, Stéphane; Chanlin, R; Corlin, Florine; Hureau, Louise; Volney, Béatrice; Hiwat, Hélène; Vreden, Stephen; Djossou, Félix; Demar, Magalie; Nacher, Mathieu; Musset, L.

doi:10.1093/jac/dkx343

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Predictors of antimalarial self-medication in illegal gold miners in French Guiana: a pathway towards artemisinin resistance

Published in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy • Aug 28, 2017

Authors:

Maylis Douine

Yassamine Lazrek

Denis Blanchet

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Malaria is endemic in French Guiana (FG), South America. Despite the decrease in cases in the local population, illegal gold miners are very affected by malaria (22.3% of them carried Plasmodium spp.). Self-medication seems to be very common, but its modalities and associated factors hav...

Subject

Artemisinin

Malaria

Drug resistance

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