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Volume 20, Number 4—April 2014

Research

Regional Variation in Travel-related Illness acquired in Africa, March 1997–May 2011

Marc MendelsonComments to Author , Pauline V. Han, Peter Vincent, Frank von Sonnenburg, Jakob P. Cramer, Louis Loutan, Kevin C. Kain, Philippe Parola, Stefan Hagmann, Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas, Mark Sotir, Patricia Schlagenhauf, and for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network
Author affiliations: University of Cape Town Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa (M. Mendelson); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (P.V. Han, M. Sotir); Tokai Medicross Travel Clinic, Cape Town (P. Vincent); University of Munich, Munich, Germany (F. von Sonnenburg); University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany (J.P. Cramer); University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (L. Loutan); University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (K.C. Kain); Assitance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille–North University Hospital, Marseille, France (P. Parola); Yeshiva University Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, Bronx, New York, USA (S. Hagmann); Cambridge University Hospitals National Health Service Trust, Cambridge, UK (E. Gkrania-Klotsas); University of Zurich Centre for Travel Medicine, Zurich, Switzerland (P. Schlagenhauf)

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Table 2

Deaths of ill travelers returning from Africa who were seen at GeoSentinel clinic sites, March 1997–May 2011*

Patient no.
 Age, y/sex
 Diagnosis
 Region
 Exposure country
 Travel reason
 Expatriate
1 66/M Malaria, Plasmodium falciparum. Severe and complicated, noncerebral Western Burkina Faso Business No
2 68/M Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral Eastern Kenya Tourism No
3 50/M Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral Western Ghana Business Yes
4 61/M Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral Western Sierra Leone Business No
5 4/M Pneumonia, bacterial, lobar Eastern Tanzania, Accompanying parent on business No
6 48/M Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral Western Ghana VFR No
7 47/M Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pulmonary and extrapulmonary Western Unknown VFR No
8 57/M Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral Western Liberia Missionary/volunteer/ researcher/aid worker No
9 30/F Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral Central Equatorial Guinea Business Yes
10 53/M Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, noncerebral Central Angola Business No
11
 40/M
 Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral
 Central
 Angola
 Business
 No
*Three patients with malaria who died did not receive chemoprophylaxis, 1 received mefloquine, and data were missing for the remaining 5 travelers. The United Nations geoscheme was used to classify Africa into subregions (5). VFR, visiting friends or relatives.

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1Contributing members of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network are listed at the end of this article.

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