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Open Access | Malaria risk in Corsica, former hot spot of malaria in France

Author(s): 
Toty C, Barre H, Le Goff G, Larget-Thiery I, Rahola N, Couret D, Fontenille D
Reference: 
Malaria Journal 2010, 9:231 (12 August 2010)
Contact email: 
celine.toty@ird.fr

The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria was very high in Corsica just before the Second World War. The last outbreak was in 1972 and the most recent indigenous case was in 2006.

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