Confirmation of the absence of local transmission and geographic assignment of imported falciparum malaria cases to China using microsatellite panel

Table 1 Summary of imported malaria cases from sub-Saharan Africa to Jiangsu Province, China

Regions	Year reported	No. samples		Duration of stay (median [IQR])	No. reported malaria episodes mean [sd]	Parasite density (× 1,000) median [IQR])
Regions	Year reported	Total	Genotyped	Duration of stay (median [IQR])	No. reported malaria episodes mean [sd]	Parasite density (× 1,000) median [IQR])
East Africa	2013–2014	25	22	286 [182, 390]	1.9 [1.8]	8.6 [3.8, 34.6]
Central Africa	2011–2015	512	287	394 [194, 688]	3.9 [4.6]	13.9 [3.6, 80]
Central-West Africa	2013–2014	113	84	254 [138, 371]	1.9 [2.2]	21 [4.5, 77]
West Africa	2013–2014	63	51	232 [96, 348]	1.8 [2.6]	27 [5.7, 75.7]
Southern Africa	2013–2014	233	158	471 [268, 748]	1.2 [1.3]	30 [6.6, 100]
Total	2011–2015	946	602	351 [196, 655]	2.5 [3.5]	19.8 [4.6, 81.1]

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