Erratum to: Epidemiologic features of overseas imported malaria in the People's Republic of China.

Erratum to: Malar J (2016) 15:141 DOI 10.1186/s12936-016-1188-7

The authors of [1] would like to highlight the following corrections to their original article published in Malaria Journal.

In the third paragraph of ‘Case detection and clinical outcome’ in the “Results” section of [1], “acute renal dysfunction (5.3 %)” should be replaced as “severe anaemia (5.3 %)”.

In addition, in Table 3 of the original publication [1], the Overall Complicated signs/symptoms on coma should be 25 (1.8 %), Cerebral lesion be 23 (1.6 %), Gastrointestinal damage 32 (2.3 %), Liver function impairment 38 (2.7 %) and Severe anaemia 25 (1.8 %). The following is our corrected Table 3.

Table 3

Clinical manifestation of imported malaria cases by outpatient and inpatient in nine provinces of China

Clinical features	Overall (n = 1420)	Outpatientsn = 945			Inpatientsn = 475
		P.f. (n = 389)	P.v. (n = 515)	All(n = 945)	P.f. (n = 334)	P.v. (n = 114)	All(n = 475)
Common signs/symptoms	1412 (99)	383 (98.5 %)	514 (99.8 %)	938 (99.3 %)	333 (99.7 %)	113 (99.1 %)	474 (99.8 %)
Fever	1390 (97.9 %)	372 (95.6 %)	509 (98.8 %)	920 (97.4 %)	331 (99.1 %)	113 (99.1 %)	470 (98.9 %)
Chills	1159 (81.6 %)	282 (72.5 %)	474 (92.0 %)	785 (83.1 %)	248 (74.3 %)	104 (91.2 %)	374 (78.7 %)
Sweating	1008 (71.0 %)	249 (64.0 %)	423 (82.1 %)	697 (73.8 %)	203 (60.8 %)	90 (78.9 %)	311 (65.5 %)
Headache	921 (64.9 %)	234 (60.2 %)	383 (74.4 %)	640 (67.7 %)	188 (56.3 %)	79 (69.3 %)	281 (59.2 %)
Malaise	414 (29.2 %)	122 (31.4 %)	147 (28.5 %)	281 (29.7 %)	92 (27.5 %)	35 (30.7 %)	133 (28.0 %)
Dizziness	272 (19.2 %)	89 (22.9 %)	85 (16.5 %)	181 (19.2 %)	66 (19.8 %)	22 (19.3 %)	91 (19.2 %)
Diarrhoea	168 (11.8 %)	42 (10.8 %)	41 (8.0 %)	87 (9.2 %)	44 (13.2 %)	5 (4.4 %)	81 (17.1 %)
Complicated signs/symptoms	112 (7.9 %)	0	0	0	95 (28.4 %)	17 (14.9 %)	112 (23.6 %)
Coma	25 (1.8 %)	0	0	0	25 (7.5 %)	0	25 (5.3 %)
Cerebral lesion	23 (1.6 %)	0	0	0	22 (6.6 %)	1 (0.9 %)	23 (4.8 %)
Gastro-intestinal damage	32 (2.3 %)	0	0	0	23 (6.9 %)	9 (7.9 %)	32 (6.7 %)
Liver function impairment	38 (2.7 %)	0	0	0	38 (11.4 %)	0	38 (8.0 %)
Acute renal dysfunction	23 (1.6 %)	0	0	0	23 (6.9 %)	0	23 (4.8 %)
Severe anaemia	25 (1.8 %)	0	0	0	21 (6.3 %)	4 (3.5 %)	25 (5.3 %)
Haemolysis	19 (1.3 %)	0	0	0	17 (5.1 %)	2 (1.8 %)	19 (4.0 %)
Shock	7 (0.5 %)	0	0	0	7 (2.1 %)	0	7 (1.5 %)
Acidosis	5 (0.4 %)	0	0	0	4 (1.2 %)	1 (0.9 %)	5 (1.1 %)

P.f., Plasmodium falciparum; P.v., Plasmodium vivax

We regret these mistakes.