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 4
Case-fatality ratios for children with imported malaria in 8 of 11 industrialized countries, 1992–2002*
| Country | Total no. cases | No. deaths | Ratio (95% confidence interval) |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 4,893 | 10 | 0.20 (0.09–0.37) |
| Germany† | 512 | 2 | 0.39 (0.05–1.40) |
| Italy‡ | 335 | 0 | 0.00 (0.00–0.89) |
| Japan | 15 | 0 | 0.00 (0.00–18.10) |
| Sweden§ | 93 | 0 | 0.00 (0.00–3.17) |
| Switzerland | 273 | 1 | 0.37 (0.01–2.02) |
| United Kingdom | 2,502 | 5 | 0.20 (0.06–0.47) |
| United States | 1,225 | 4 | 0.33 (0.09–0.83) |
*All cases caused by Plasmodium falciparum. Children were <18 years of age, except in France and the United Kingdom, where data were available only for children <15 and <17 years of age, respectively. No data were available from Australia, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
†Data from 1993–2002 only.
‡Data from 1998–2002 only.
§Data from 1997–2002 only.
