Concurrent dengue and malaria in Cayenne Hospital, French Guiana.
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.
Carme
Bernard
B
Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne, Cayenne, French Guiana. carme.bernard@wanadoo.fr
Matheus
Severine
S
Donutil
Gerd
G
Raulin
Olivia
O
Nacher
Mathieu
M
Morvan
Jacques
J