Declining incidence of imported malaria in the Netherlands, 2000-2007

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Reported imported infections of malaria by continent and sub-region of infection, and by species, The Netherlands, 2000-2007.

Region	*P. falciparum*	*P. ovale*	*P. vivax*	*P. malariae*	Species unknown	Total
Africa	1,658 (94%)	157 (94%)	78 (22%)	47 (78%)	128 (80%)	2,068 (82%)
Middle & West Africa ¹	1413	110	23	39	89	1674
East & Southern Africa ²	245	47	55	8	39	394
America	43 (2%)	2 (1%)	79 (23%)	7 (12%)	11 (7%)	142 (6%)
Middle America ³	4	0	17	0	5	24
South America ⁴	39	2	62	7	6	118
Asia	71 (4%)	9 (5%)	192 (55%)	5 (8%)	21 (13%)	298 (12%)
South Asia ⁵	20	0	57	3	9	89
South East Asia ⁶	51	9	135	2	12	209
Oceania	2 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (2%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (0.1%)
Sub total	1,774 (100%)	169 (100%)	349 (100%)	60 (100%)	160 (100%)	2,511 (100%)
Region of infection unknown	115	15	39	4	162	336
Total	1,889	184	388	64	322	2,847

¹Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, the Democratic republic of Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
²Botswana, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nauru, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
³Anguilla (U.K.), Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda (U.K.), Cayman Islands (U.K.), Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique (France), Mexico, Montserrat (U.K.), Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico (U.S.), Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands (U.K.), Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.
⁴Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Easter Island (Chile), Ecuador, Falkland Islands (U.K.), French Guiana (France), Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela.
⁵Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iraq, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
⁶Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Vietnam.

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