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 5
Plasmodium species causing imported malaria in children in 10 of 11 industrialized countries, 1992–2002*
| Country | Total no. cases |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Including cases caused by mixed or unknown species | Excluding cases caused by mixed or unknown species | Cases caused by known species, no. (%) |
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| P. falciparum | P. vivax | P. ovale | P. malariae | ||||
| Denmark | 257 | 243 | 146 (56.8) | 74 (28.8) | 17 (6.6) | 6 (2.3) | |
| France | 6,618 | 6,275 | 5,502 (83.1) | 282 (4.3) | 365 (5.5) | 126 (1.9) | |
| Germany† | 757 | 685 | 512 (67.7) | 140 (18.5) | 16 (2.1) | 17 (2.2) | |
| Italy‡ | 407 | 402 | 335 (82.3) | 34 (8.4) | 19 (4.7) | 14 (3.4) | |
| Japan | 45 | 40 | 15 (33.3) | 19 (42.2) | 5 (11.1) | 1 (2.2) | |
| Netherlands | 420 | 349 | 237 (56.4) | 74 (17.6) | 23 (5.5) | 15 (3.6) | |
| Sweden§ | 155 | 142 | 93 (60.0) | 33 (21.3) | 9 (5.8) | 7 (4.5) | |
| Switzerland | 416 | 368 | 273 (65.6) | 71 (17.1) | 13 (3.1) | 11 (2.6) | |
| United Kingdom | 3,816 | 3,770 | 2,502 (65.6) | 1,033 (27.1) | 175 (4.6) | 60 (1.6) | |
| United States |
2,614 |
2,397 |
1,225 (46.9) |
982 (37.6) |
65 (2.5) |
125 (4.8) |
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| Total | 15,505 | 14,671 | 10,840 (69.9) | 2,742 (17.7) | 707 (4.6) | 382 (2.5) | |
*All children were <18 years of age, except in the United Kingdom, where data were available only for children <17 years of age. No data were available from Australia.
†Data from 1993–2002 only.
‡Data from 1998–2002 only.
§Data from 1997–2002 only.
