title: [Zika virus outbreak in Latin America: what are the challenges for French Guiana in April 2016?].
abstract: Started in 2015 in Brazil, an outbreak linked to a little known arbovirus, Zika virus spread throughout Latin America. This virus, considered until recently as responsible of only mild symptoms, made mention of previously unsuspected complications, with severe neurological manifestations in adults and malformations of the central nervous system, including microcephaly, in newborns of mother infected during the pregnancy. While the continent is more accustomed to the succession of arbovirus epidemics, suspected complications and the many unknowns keys of the latter arriving raise many public health issues. French Guiana, a French territory located in the north-east of the continent, combines both European level of resources and climate and issues specific to the Amazon region and Latin America. We discuss here the issues for 2016 Zika virus epidemic in our region, many of them are generalizable to neighboring countries.
authors.affiliation: Unité des maladies infectieuses et tropicales, Centre hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, Guyane française, France. epelboincrh@hotmail.fr.|Ecosystèmes amazoniens et pathologie tropicale (EPAT).EA3593., Université de la Guyane, Guyane Française, France. epelboincrh@hotmail.fr.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Epelboin
authors.affiliation: Ecosystèmes amazoniens et pathologie tropicale (EPAT).EA3593., Université de la Guyane, Guyane Française, France.|Centre d'investigation clinique Antilles-Guyane, Inserm 1424, Centre hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, 97300, Cayenne, Guyane française, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Douine
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie obstétrique, Centre hospitalier de l'Ouest guyanais, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni cedex, Guyane française, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carles
authors.affiliation: Institut de géographie (UFR08), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Villemant
authors.affiliation: Ecosystèmes amazoniens et pathologie tropicale (EPAT).EA3593., Université de la Guyane, Guyane Française, France.|Centre d'investigation clinique Antilles-Guyane, Inserm 1424, Centre hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, 97300, Cayenne, Guyane française, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nacher
authors.affiliation: Centre nationale des arbovirus, laboratoire de virologie, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, Guyane française, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rousset
authors.affiliation: Unité des maladies infectieuses et tropicales, Centre hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, Guyane française, France.|Ecosystèmes amazoniens et pathologie tropicale (EPAT).EA3593., Université de la Guyane, Guyane Française, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Djossou
authors.affiliation: Unité des maladies infectieuses et tropicales, Centre hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, Guyane française, France.|Ecosystèmes amazoniens et pathologie tropicale (EPAT).EA3593., Université de la Guyane, Guyane Française, France.|Centres délocalisés de préventions et de soins, Centre hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, Guyane française, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mosnier
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005616:French Guiana / Q000453:epidemiology; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007843:Latin America / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology; D011634:Public Health; D015229:Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D000071244:Zika Virus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000071243:Zika Virus Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission
keywords: French Guiana; Latin America; Maternal-fetal infections; Microcephaly; Sexually transmitted diseases; Zika virus