Table. Cases of Plasmodium knowlesi infections reported in Germany, 2012–2017.

Case ID	Date of admission	Age in years	Sex	Level of care	RDT	Smear parasitaemiaa	Nuclear amplification techniques	Treatment
1	January 2012	54	Male	IPD	Not done	0.01%	Sequencing positiveb	Atovaquone/proguanil
2	January 2013	55	Female	IPD	BinaxNOW, pan-aldolase (T2 band) positive	0.2%	PCR positivec	Artesunate followed by Artemether/lumefantrine
3	December 2013	73	Male	ICU	BinaxNOW negative	3%	PCR positivec	Quinine/doxycycline
4	December 2014	52	Female	IPD	BinaxNOW negative	1%	PCR positivec	Artemether/lumefantrine
5	February 2015	42	Male	IPD	BinaxNOW negative	0.02%	PCR positivec	Atovaquone/proguanil
6	January 2017	45	Male	OPD	BinaxNOW negative	0.0002%	PCR positivec	Atovaquone/proguanil

ICU: intensive care unit; IPD: in-patient department; OPD: out-patient department; RDT: rapid diagnostic test.

^a Percentages of infected erythrocytes are presented.

^b Sequencing of small subunit ribosomal RNA, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool analysis of the obtained sequence, yields a 96% match with the respective P. knowlesi sequence.

^c A PCR with primers specific for P. knowlesi was conducted.