Table III.
Plasmodium species per patient by region of travel, 1998 – 2003, Northern Ireland
| Region | Plasmodium | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| falciparum | vivax | ovale | malariae | unknown | combination | ||
| Africa | |||||||
| Central | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| East | 181 | 3 | 142 | 0 | 1 | 1 (fal+vivax) | 37* |
| West | 33 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 (fal+ovale) | 39 |
| South | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 0 | |||||||
| South East Asia (SEA) | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8* |
| 0 | |||||||
| India/Pakistan | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 0 | |||||||
| Unknown | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1(oval+mal) | 4 |
| Total | 65 | 21 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 114 |
*
One patient in each of these regions also visited South America
1
One patient also travelled to South Africa
2
One patient also travelled to SEA.