Volume 15, Number 2—February 2009
Research
Imported Malaria in Children in Industrialized Countries, 1992–2002
Katrin Stäger, Fabrice Legros, Gérard Krause, Nicola Low, David Bradley, Meghna Desai, Simone Graf, Stefania D’Amato, Yasutaka Mizuno, Ragnhild Janzon, Eskild Petersen, John Kester, Robert Steffen, and Patricia Schlagenhauf
Table 2
Number of imported malaria cases in children in 11 industrialized countries, by age group, 1993–2002
| Country | Age group, y, no. (%)* |
Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–2 | 3–5 | 6–8 | 9–11 | 12–14 | 15–17 | 18 | ||
| Australia | 131 (8.7) | 143 (9.5) | 139 (9.2) | 174 (11.6) | 233 (15.5) | 456 (30.3) | 228 (15.2) | 1,504 |
| Denmark† | 26 (10.1) | 44 (17.1) | 47 (18.3) | 37 (14.4) | 30 (11.7) | 55 (21.4) | 15 (5.8) | 257 |
| France | 1,149 (17.4) | 1,247 (18.8) | 1,054 (15.9) | 1,042 (15.7) | 920 (13.9) | 887 (13.4) | 319 (4.8) | 6,618 |
| Germany‡ | 112 (14.8) | 123 (16.2) | 120 (15.9) | 117 (15.5) | 97 (12.8) | 142 (18.8) | 46 (6.1) | 757 |
| Italy§ | 80 (19.7) | 107 (26.3) | 67 (16.5) | 47 (11.5) | 31 (7.6) | 57 (14.0) | 18 (4.4) | 407 |
| Japan | 1 (2.2) | 8 (17.8) | 10 (22.2) | 1 (2.2) | 6 (13.3) | 8 (17.8) | 11 (24.4) | 45 |
| Netherlands | 47 (11.2) | 67 (16.0) | 65 (15.5) | 45 (10.7) | 45 (10.7) | 115 (27.4) | 36 (8.6) | 420 |
| Sweden¶ | 12 (7.7) | 20 (12.9) | 26 (16.8) | 30 (19.4) | 24 (15.5) | 32 (20.6) | 11 (7.1) | 155 |
| Switzerland | 60 (14.4) | 81 (19.5) | 72 (17.3) | 65 (15.6) | 55 (13.2) | 60 (14.4) | 23 (5.5) | 416 |
| United Kingdom | 351 (9.2) | 619 (16.2) | 621 (16.3) | 714 (18.7) | 707 (18.5) | 804 (21.1) | Not available | 3,816 |
| United States |
333 (12.7) |
463 (17.7) |
409 (15.6) |
386 (14.8) |
399 (15.3) |
463 (17.7) |
161 (6.2) |
2,614 |
| Total cases | 2,302 (13.5) | 2,922 (17.2) | 2,630 (15.5) | 2,658 (15.6) | 2,547 (15.0) | 3,079 (18.1) | 868 (5.1) | 17,009 |
*Percentage of total cases in children <18 years of age (<17 years of age for United Kingdom).
†Data include 3 (1.2%) cases for which age was not specified.
‡Data from 1993–2002 only.
§Data from 1998–2002 only.
¶Data from 1997–2002 only.
