Table 3.

Latent period for all Plasmodium species in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China, 2013–2015^*

Species	No. of cases	Latency period (days)
		Mean	SD	Median	Minimum†	Maximum‡
P. falciparum	1,353	14	23	7	−29	287
P. vivax	139	42	54	23	−17	180
P. ovale	109	125	108	89	−5	364
P. malariae	19	65	68	51	−7	349
Mixed infection	25	45	73	9	−2	247
Total	1,645	26	51	8	−29	364

^*The reported 1,645 malaria cases that occurred in 2013–2015 were investigated except for 26 cases lost to follow-up in this study.

^†This indicates that the interval of the last infection for this patient before he or she arrived in China.

^‡This represents that the interval of primary infection for this patient before he or she arrived in China.