Table 4.

Comparison of Reported Severe Vivax Malaria Cases From 4 Locations

Plasmodium vivax Malaria Outcome	Mae Sot, Thailand (Current Report)	Manaus, Brazil [34]a	Bikaner, India [32]a	Papua, Indonesia [35]
Total consultations, no.	80 841	10 283	843	293 763
Hospitalizations, no. (%)	278 (0.34)	316 (3)	462 (55)	3495 (1)
WHO severity criteria fulfilled, no. (% of hospitalizations)	67 (24)	40 (12.6)	157 (34)	845 (24)
Mortality rate, deaths/1000 cases	0.05	0.3	6.1	0.12

Abbreviation: WHO, World Health Organization.

The Manaus and Bikaner consultations were at tertiary reference hospitals.