Table.

Primary diagnoses at discharge in 31 children admitted to hospital with fever after arriving in United Kingdom from the tropics

	No of cases
Diagnosis	Resident in UK	Not resident in UK	Total
Non-specific fever	10	4	14
Malaria*:
Falciparum malaria	2	1	3
Vivax malaria	0	1	1
Bacillary dysentery*†	3	0	3
Dengue fever	2	0	2
Typhoid*	2	0	2
Acute hepatitis A*	0	1	1
Bacterial lymphadenitis	1	0	1
Pneumonia	0	1	1
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia‡	0	1	1
Acute myeloid leukaemia	0	1	1
Streptococcal throat infection	1	0	1

^*Notifiable infections.  

^†Positive stool isolates: shigella (1 case), salmonella (1).  

^‡Newly diagnosed HIV infection.