Table 5. Travel history of malaria-infected patients, by age group, Atar, northern Mauritania, 2015–2016*.
| Age group, y | No. PCR-positive patients |
Total no. (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No travel history | Travel to nonendemic regions | Travel to endemic regions† | ||
| <5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 (4.6) |
| 5–9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 (2.0) |
| 10–15 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 20 (13.2) |
| >15 | 35 | 10 | 76 | 121 (80.1) |
| Total, no. (%) | 48 (31.8) | 10 (6.6) | 93 (61.6) | 151 (100) |
*Travel history within 6 months before consultation was obtained for 435 febrile patients. Of 162 PCR-positive malaria patients, travel history was available for 151 patients. †Endemic regions include Nouakchott, the entire southern Sahelian zone of Mauritania, and sub-Saharan Africa countries.