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Table 3 Patients’ travel destinations. Data were available for 32 patients with P. ovale curtisi and 32 patients with P. ovale wallikeri, (n) describes the numbers of patients with respective travel destinations

From: A comparison of two PCR protocols for the differentiation of Plasmodium ovale species and implications for clinical management in travellers returning to Germany: a 10-year cross-sectional study

Travel destination

Patient with P. ovale curtisi (n)

Patient with P. ovale wallikeri (n)

Benin

1

Burkina Faso

1

Cameroon

3

7

Equatorial Guinea

1

Gabon

1

Ghana

5

6

Guinea

2

Ivory coast

1

3

Kenya

1

1

Liberia

2

Malawi

1

1

Nigeria

5

2

Papua New Guinea

1

Zambia

1

Sierra Leone

1

1

Somalia

1

Sudan

1

Tanzania

1

2

Togo

1

Uganda

3

2

Various destinations

4a

1b

  1. aVarious destinations comprised Benin and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Nigeria and Gabon; Eritrea, Sudan and Libya; as well as Benin, Togo, Ethiopia, the Philippines and Iran
  2. bVarious destinations comprised Mali and the Ivory Coast