Table 4.

Malaria prevalence by microscopy, RDT and RT-qPCR against characteristics of participants (n=501).

Characteristics	Microscopy (%)	P-value	RDT (%)	P-value	RT-qPCR (%)	P-value
Sex
Male	23/191 (12%)	<0.001	30/191 (15.7%)	0.439	91/191 (47.6%)	0.371
Female	11/310 (3.6%)		41/310 (13.2%)		135/310 (43.6%)
Age group
6-10	10/190 (5.3%)	0.289	24/190 (12.6%)	0.440	78/190 (41%)	0.152
11-14	24/311 (7.7%)		47/311 (15.1%)		148/311 (47.6%)
Temperature
<37.5	30/465(6.5%)	0.284	66/465(14.2%)	0.960	213/465(45.8%)	0.260
≥37.5	4/36(11.1%)		5/36(13.9%)		13/36(36.1%)