Key points

• 75 cases of active tuberculosis (TB) were reported in French Guiana

• A crude tuberculosis case rate of 25.8 per 100,000 inhabitants, higher than in other regions of France but lower than in French Guiana’s neighboring countries

• 64% of active TB cases were aged 25 to 59, with an equal number of men and women, and 85% were born abroad

• 87% were pulmonary cases, and there were no cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

• 86% of diagnoses result from patients seeking care on their own initiative