Table 2.

Geographical distribution by type of case and distribution of malaria species and severe malaria by type of case

	Immigrants		VFR-immigrants		VFR-travellers		Travellers
	N = 176		N = 447		N = 46		N = 181
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Subsaharan Africa	168	95.5	433	96.9	45	97.8	163	90.0
P. falciparum	140	83.3	380	87.8	39	86.7	123	75.5
P. malariae	8	4.8	5	1.2	1	2.2	1	0.6
P. ovale	4	2.4	7	1.6	2	4.4	14	8.6
P. vivax	2	1.2	0	0.0	0	0.0	7	4.3
Unknown	10	6.0	29	6.7	1	2.2	14	8.6
Mixed infection	4	2.4	12	2.8	2	4.4	4	2.5
Central and South America	2	1.1	9	2.0	0	0.0	9	5.0
P. falciparum	0	0.0	3	33.3	0	0.0	4	44.4
P. ovale	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	11.1
P. vivax	2	100.0	5	55.6	0	0.0	3	33.3
Unknown	0	0.0	1	11.1	0	0.0	1	11.1
Asia	6	3.4	5	1.1	1	2.2	9	5.0
P. falciparum	0	0.0	2	40.0	0	0.0	2	22.2
P. vivax	5	83.3	3	60.0	1	100.0	6	66.7
Unknown	1	16.7	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	11.1
Severe malaria	2	1.1	6	1.3	1	2.2	10	5.5

No cases were acquired in Europe, Australasia-Oceania, North Africa or North America