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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 SchlagenhaufComments to Author 
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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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.

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