Volume 13, Number 6—June 2007
Research
Risk Factors for Imported Fatal Plasmodium falciparum Malaria, France, 1996–2003
Fabrice Legros*†‡§, Olivier Bouchaud¶, Thierry Ancelle#**, Amandine Arnaud*†, Sandrine Cojean#††, Jacques Le Bras¶#††, Martin Danis*†§‡‡, Arnaud Fontanet§§, Rémy Durand††¶
, Autochthonous Malaria Epidemiology, and for the French National Reference Centers for ImportedChemosensitivity Working Group
, Autochthonous Malaria Epidemiology, and for the French National Reference Centers for ImportedChemosensitivity Working GroupTable 2
Distribution of falciparum malaria cases and deaths by country of acquisition, 1996–2003
| Country | No. deaths | No. falciparum malaria cases | Case-fatality rate per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Verde | 1 | 4 | 250.0 |
| Senegal | 12 | 2,234 | 5.4 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 96 | 10.4 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 50 | 20.0 |
| Guinea | 3 | 823 | 3.6 |
| Mali | 8 | 2,124 | 3.8 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 15 | 4,623 | 3.2 |
| Burkina Faso | 5 | 740 | 6.8 |
| Ghana | 1 | 194 | 5.2 |
| Togo | 3 | 604 | 5.0 |
| Benin | 3 | 1,012 | 3.0 |
| Niger | 3 | 152 | 19.7 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 123 | 16.3 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 2,707 | 4.4 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 31 | 32.3 |
| Gabon | 4 | 671 | 6.0 |
| Congo | 4 | 885 | 4.5 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 728 | 1.4 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 38 | 26.3 |
| Kenya | 4 | 101 | 39.6 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 12 | 83.3 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 29 | 34.5 |
| Comoros Islands | 1 | 2,017 | 0.5 |
| Madagascar | 4 | 432 | 9.3 |
| Others, several countries or unknown |
4 |
1,458 |
2.7 |
| Total | 96 | 21,888 | 4.4 |
