Table 3.

Epidemiological and plasmodial molecular features of 2 malaria cases hospitalized in Florence. All 5 polymorphic markers analysed showed complete concordance between the isolates 1 (putative induced; the reference case) and 2 (imported)

Patient	Epidemiological characteristics of the patient				Comparison among the patients for five polymorphic molecular markers from P. falciparum isolates
	Country of origin	Gender	Onset of symptoms	Hospitalization period	MSP1-K1	MSP2-FC27	GLURP	HRP2	HRP3
1 (putative induced)	Italy	Male	26/10/2017	13-19/10/2017	*	*	*	*	*
2 (imported)	Senegal	Male	08/10/2017	13-27/10/2017	*	*	*	*	*

*Size and nucleotide sequence identity