Table 1 General characteristic of patients included in the study

Mean age in years (range;SD)

35 (14–71; 8.49)

Gender (number, %)

 Male

256 (93.8%)

 Female

17 (6.2%)

Country of origin (number, %)

 Mali

166 (60.8%)

 Senegal

33 (12.1%)

 Ghana

18 (6.6%)

 Equitorial Guinea

14 (5.1%)

 Guinea Bissau

12 (4.4%)

 Burkina Faso

8 (2.9%)

 Gambia

6 (2.2%)

 Guinea

6 (2.2%)

 Spain

4 (1.5%)

 Nigeria

3 (1.1%)

 Cote d’Ivoire

1 (0.4%)

 Cameroon

1 (0.4%)

 Romania

1 (0.4%)

Type of traveller (number, %)

 VFR travellers

252 (92.3%)

 Non-VFR migrants

16 (5.9%)

 Expatriate

3 (1.1%)

 Others

2 (0.7%)

Mean time living in Spain in months (range)

117.35 (1–360)

Time (months) to last visit to a malaria-endemic country (mean, range)

2.96 (1–156)

HIV infection

8 (2.9%)

Diagnosing services

 Emergency Department

258 (94.5%)

 Tropical Medicine Unit

15 (5.5%)

ICU admission (number, %)

49 (17.9%)

Deaths (number, %)

0 (0.0%)

Laboratory test results (mean, range)

 Haemoglobin (g/dL)

13.3 (4.7 – 17.7)

 Leukocytes (/microL)

5,719.5 (2,000 – 31,500)

 Neutrophils (/microL)

3,880.5 (930 – 14,912)

 Lymphocytes (/microL)

1,045 (158 – 14,096)

 Monocytes (/microL)

462.1 (44–2,245)

 Eosinophils (/microL)

80.4 (0–3,000)

 Platelets (/microL)

111.9 (10–864)

 Monocyte-Lymphocyte Ratio

0.5 (0.06–2.7)

 Neutrophil–Lymphocyte Ratio

5.6 (0.1–29.9)

Parasitological test results

 Parasitaemia % (mean, range)

1.8 (0–37.4)

Smear microscopy (number,%)

  Positive

248 (90.8%)

  Negative

25 (9.2%)

RDT (number,%)

  Pan + Pf

195 (71.4%)

  Pf

78 (28.6%)