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Euro Surveill. A large outbreak of conjunctivitis on Mayotte Island, France, February to May 2012
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T Lernout (
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Citation style for this article: Lernout T, Maillard O, Boireaux S, Collet L, Filleul L. A large outbreak of conjunctivitis on Mayotte Island, France, February to May 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(23):pii=20192. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20192
Date of submission: 01 June 2012 <HR>From February to May 2012, Mayotte experienced an outbreak of acute conjunctivitis with over 12,000 estimated cases, causing a significant burden on the primary healthcare system. It was most certainly caused by a coxsackievirus, as documented by isolation from a symptomatic traveller from the Comoros Islands in France. Tropical climate and poor hygiene conditions facilitate the spread of infectious diseases on Mayotte and in the region with risk of further exportation to mainland France and Europe.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 23, 07 June 2012
Rapid communications
A large outbreak of conjunctivitis on Mayotte Island, France, February to May 2012
Rapid communications
A large outbreak of conjunctivitis on Mayotte Island, France, February to May 2012
T Lernout (
- Regional office of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de veille sanitaire-InVS), Mayotte, France
- Hospital Centre of Mayotte, Mayotte, France
Citation style for this article: Lernout T, Maillard O, Boireaux S, Collet L, Filleul L. A large outbreak of conjunctivitis on Mayotte Island, France, February to May 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(23):pii=20192. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20192
Date of submission: 01 June 2012 <HR>From February to May 2012, Mayotte experienced an outbreak of acute conjunctivitis with over 12,000 estimated cases, causing a significant burden on the primary healthcare system. It was most certainly caused by a coxsackievirus, as documented by isolation from a symptomatic traveller from the Comoros Islands in France. Tropical climate and poor hygiene conditions facilitate the spread of infectious diseases on Mayotte and in the region with risk of further exportation to mainland France and Europe.