- Lauriane Ramalli1,2,3, Stephen Mulero3,4, Harold Noël5, Jean-Dominique Chiappini6, Josselin Vincent6, Hélène Barré-Cardi7, Philippe Malfait1, Guillaume Normand8, Florian Busato9, Vincent Gendrin10, Jean-François Allienne4, Judith Fillaux11, Jérôme Boissier4,12, Antoine Berry11,12,13
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Santé publique France, Regional office of the French national public health agency in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Corsica, Saint-Maurice, France 2 European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 3 Both authors contributed equally to the study and manuscript writing 4 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (UMR 5244), University of Perpignan, Perpignan, France 5 Santé publique France, French national public health agency, Saint-Maurice, France 6 Regional Health Agency of Corsica, Ajaccio, France 7 Environnement Agency of Corsica (Office de l’environnement de Corse), Corsica, France 8 Urology department, Ormeau polyclinic, Tarbes, France 9 Internal Medicine, Bigorre Hospital, Tarbes, France 10 Infectious disease department, Nord Franche-Comté Hospital, Trévenans, France 11 Department of Parasitology-Mycology, CHU Toulouse, Toulouse, France 12 Both authors contributed equally to the study 13 Physiopathology Centre of Toulouse-Purpan, Toulouse University, CNRS, INSERM, UPS, Toulouse, FranceLauriane Ramallilauriane.ramalli santepubliquefrance.fr
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Citation style for this article: Ramalli Lauriane, Mulero Stephen, Noël Harold, Chiappini Jean-Dominique, Vincent Josselin, Barré-Cardi Hélène, Malfait Philippe, Normand Guillaume, Busato Florian, Gendrin Vincent, Allienne Jean-François, Fillaux Judith, Boissier Jérôme, Berry Antoine. Persistence of schistosomal transmission linked to the Cavu river in southern Corsica since 2013. Euro Surveill. 2018;23(4):pii=18-00017. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.4.18-00017 Received: 10 Jan 2018; Accepted: 24 Jan 2018
Persistence of schistosomal transmission linked to the Cavu river in southern Corsica since 2013
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Abstract
Seven cases of urogenital schistosomiasis occurred in Corsica in 2015 and 2016. The episodes were related to exposure to the same river and involved the same parasite strain as an outbreak with 106 cases in summer 2013. The connection calls for further investigations on the presence of an animal reservoir and the survival of infested snails during winter. However, recontamination of the river from previously infected bathers remains the most likely hypothesis.

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