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Volume 26, Number 6—June 2020
Research

Endemic Chromoblastomycosis Caused Predominantly by Fonsecaea nubica, Madagascar1

Tahinamandranto Rasamoelina, Danièle Maubon, Malalaniaina Andrianarison, Irina Ranaivo, Fandresena Sendrasoa, Njary Rakotozandrindrainy, Fetra A. Rakotomalala, Sébastien Bailly, Benja Rakotonirina, Abel Andriantsimahavandy, Fahafahantsoa Rakato Rabenja, Mala R. Andrianarivelo, Muriel CornetComments to Author , and Lala S. Ramarozatovo
Author affiliations: Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar (T. Rasamoelina, N. Rakotozandrindrainy, F.A. Rakotomalala, B. Rakotonirina, A. Andriantsimahavandy, M.Rakato Andrianarivelo); Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France (D. Maubon, S. Bailly, M. Cornet); Hôpital Universitaire Joseph Raseta Befelatanana, Antananarivo (M. Andrianarison, I. Ranaivo, F. Sendrasoa, F.R. Rabenja, L.S. Ramarozatovo); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Befelatanana, Antananarivo (L.S. Ramarozatovo)

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Table 3

Prevalence of chromoblastomycosis, Madagascar, March 2013–June 2017

Region No. persons* No. cases Prevalence
North and central north 3,629,908 20 0.55
Analanjirofo 1,151,536 2 0.17
Sava 1,091,102 16 1.47
Sofia
 1,387,270
 2
 0.14
Highlands 7,850,950 8 0.10
Analamanga 3,725,377 3 0.08
Amoron’i Mania 795,434 3 0.38
Itasy and Bongolava 1,324,044 0 0
Vakinankaratra
 2,006,095
 2
 0.10
West 1,870,459 1 0.05
Boeny and Menabe 1,548,299 0 0.00
Melaky
 322,160
 1
 0.31
East and South East 4,131,928 11 0.27
Alaotra Mangoro 1,142,612 4 0.35
Atsinanana 1,413,572 1 0.07
Vatovavy Fitovinany
 1,575744
 6
 0.38
South and South West 3,376,074 10 0.30
Androy 816,466 3 0.37
Anosy 747,352 6 0.80
Atsimo Andrefana 1,464,830 0 0
Ihorombe 347,427 1 0.29

*Determined at the end of the study period and calculated from the most recent figures available in 2013 and adjusted for subsequent years with a growth rate of 2.7%/year (World Bank estimates of demographic growth in Madagascar).
†No. cases/100,000 persons.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the 20th International Society for Human and Animal Mycology Conference; June 29–July 5, 2018; Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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