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
Author affiliations: University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (K. Stäger, R. Steffen, P. Schlagenhauf); Centre National de Référence de l'Epidémiologie du Paludisme d'Importation et Autochthone, Paris, France (F. Legros); Robert Koch Institut, Berlin, Germany (G. Krause); University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland (N. Low); Health Protection Agency, London, UK (D. Bradley); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M. Desai); Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Bern (S. Graf); Ministero della Salute, Rome, Italy (S. D’Amato); Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (Y. Mizuno); Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden (R. Janzon); Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark (E. Petersen); United Nations World Tourism Organization, Madrid, Spain (J. Kester)
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Figure. Country of origin of 12,214 children with imported malaria in 6 industrialized countries, 1992–2002.
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