Le paludisme d’importation au CHU de Bordeaux de 2000 à 2007 : épidémiologie, prise en charge et comparaison avec les données nationales

In Western countries, France accounts for the most concerned by imported malaria. The objective of the present study was to describe the epidemiological and clinical features of importedmalaria in adults attending the University Hospital Center (UHC) ofBordeaux and to compare these findingswith the French national epidemiological data. A retrospective analysis of all patients aged over 15 years with parasitologically confirmed malaria in patients recruited between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2007 has been performed. A total of 526 cases fitted the inclusion criteria with two-thirds of males and a mean age of 37 years. Patients were less frequently native from sub-Saharan Africa (SA), Madagascar, and Comoros than those from the French national data register (29 versus 72%). Hence, SA was the main destination T. Pistone (*) · A. Diallo · M.C. Receveur · R. Mansour · J. Roger-Schmeltz · D. Malvy Service de médecine interne et des maladies tropicales, hôpital Saint-André, CHU de Bordeaux, 1, rue Jean-Burguet, F-33075 Bordeaux cedex, France e-mail : [email protected] T. Pistone · M.C. Receveur · P. Millet · D. Malvy Centre René-Labusquière (médecine tropicale), EA 3677, université Victor-Segalen Bordeaux-II, France Bull. Soc. Pathol. Exot. DOI 10.1007/s13149-010-0045-4