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Table 3 Malaria in Barcelona 1989–2005: malaria risk and type of prevention (WHO, 2006) according to the different groups of patients.

From: Imported malaria in a cosmopolitan European city: A mirror image of the world epidemiological situation

Type of Prevention*

Tourists

Volunteers

FVR

Recently AI

Total n(%)

I

1

0

1

0

2 (0,3)

II

37

8

2

0

47 (6)

III

16

2

3

1

22 (2,8)

IV

206

81

312

105

704 (90)

Unknown

3

4

0

0

7 (0,9)

Total n (%)

263 (34)

95 (12)

318 (41)

106 (14)

782 (100)

  1. VFR: visiting friends and relatives, AI: arriving immigrants.
  2. * Depending on malaria risk in the area visited, the recommended prevention method may be mosquito bite prevention only (Type I), or mosquito bite prevention in combination with chemoprophylaxis (Type II to IV according to the P. falciparum presence and resistance in the area) [11].