title: Rainfall and sloth births in may, Q fever in July, Cayenne, French Guiana.
abstract: Q fever in French Guiana is correlated with the rainy season. We found a 1- to 2-month lagged correlation between Q fever incidence and the number of births of three-toed sloth. This result strengthens the hypothesis that the three-toed sloth is the wild reservoir of Q fever in French Guiana.
authors: URMITE, UMR CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM U1095 Faculté de Médecine 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France; Unité de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, 2, rue des Flamboyants, BP 6006-97306 Cayenne Cedex, French Guiana.
authors: Carole
authors: C
authors: Eldin
authors: URMITE, UMR CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM U1095 Faculté de Médecine 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France; Unité de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, 2, rue des Flamboyants, BP 6006-97306 Cayenne Cedex, French Guiana.
authors: Aba
authors: A
authors: Mahamat
authors: URMITE, UMR CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM U1095 Faculté de Médecine 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France; Unité de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, 2, rue des Flamboyants, BP 6006-97306 Cayenne Cedex, French Guiana.
authors: Felix
authors: F
authors: Djossou
authors: URMITE, UMR CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM U1095 Faculté de Médecine 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France; Unité de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, 2, rue des Flamboyants, BP 6006-97306 Cayenne Cedex, French Guiana didier.raoult@gmail.com.
authors: Didier
authors: D
authors: Raoult
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016997:Coxiella burnetii; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D005616:French Guiana / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011778:Q Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D011891:Rain; D012621:Seasons; D012896:Sloths / Q000382:microbiology*