Risk Factors for Imported Fatal Plasmodium falciparum Malaria, France, 1996–2003
Fabrice Legros*†‡§, Olivier Bouchaud¶, Thierry Ancelle#**, Amandine Arnaud*†, Sandrine Cojean#††, Jacques Le Bras¶#††, Martin Danis*†§‡‡, Arnaud Fontanet§§, Rémy Durand††¶

, Autochthonous Malaria Epidemiology, and for the French National Reference Centers for ImportedChemosensitivity Working Group
Author affiliations: *Centre National de Référence de l'Epidémiologie du Paludisme d'Importation et Autochtone, Paris, France; †University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; ‡Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France; §Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicalé, U511, Paris, France; ¶Hôpital Avicenne and University Paris 13, Bobigny, France; #University Paris 5, Paris, France; **Hôpital Cochin; Paris, France; **Hôpital Cochin; Paris, France; ††Centre National de Référence pour la Chimiosensibilité du Paludisme Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France; ‡‡Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris France; §§Unité d’Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Table 2
Distribution of falciparum malaria cases and deaths by country of acquisition, 1996–2003
Country |
No. deaths |
No. falciparum malaria cases |
Case-fatality rate per 1,000 |
Cape Verde |
1 |
4 |
250.0 |
Senegal |
12 |
2,234 |
5.4 |
Mauritania |
1 |
96 |
10.4 |
Guinea-Bissau |
1 |
50 |
20.0 |
Guinea |
3 |
823 |
3.6 |
Mali |
8 |
2,124 |
3.8 |
Côte d’Ivoire |
15 |
4,623 |
3.2 |
Burkina Faso |
5 |
740 |
6.8 |
Ghana |
1 |
194 |
5.2 |
Togo |
3 |
604 |
5.0 |
Benin |
3 |
1,012 |
3.0 |
Niger |
3 |
152 |
19.7 |
Nigeria |
2 |
123 |
16.3 |
Cameroon |
12 |
2,707 |
4.4 |
Equatorial Guinea |
1 |
31 |
32.3 |
Gabon |
4 |
671 |
6.0 |
Congo |
4 |
885 |
4.5 |
Central African Republic |
1 |
728 |
1.4 |
Tanzania |
1 |
38 |
26.3 |
Kenya |
4 |
101 |
39.6 |
Djibouti |
1 |
12 |
83.3 |
Mozambique |
1 |
29 |
34.5 |
Comoros Islands |
1 |
2,017 |
0.5 |
Madagascar |
4 |
432 |
9.3 |
Others, several countries or unknown
|
4
|
1,458
|
2.7
|
Total |
96 |
21,888 |
4.4 |
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