Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 27089004
Emerging Infect. Dis. 2016 May;22(5):903-6
To assess the prevalence of malaria among illegal gold miners in the French Guiana rainforest, we screened 205 miners during May�?”June 2014. Malaria prevalence was 48.3%; 48.5% of cases were asymptomatic. Patients reported self-medication with artemisinin-based combination therapy. Risk for emergence and spread of artemisinin resistance among gold miners in the rainforest is high.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27089004