Table 2.

Associations with pre-treatment gametocytemia in 126 Ghanaian children with uncomplicated malaria

Factor	Prevalence of gametocytemia (%)	Odds ratio (95%CI) of gametocytemia
		Unadjusted	P	Multivariate	P
CQ in blood
None	27.9 (12/43)	1		1
Present	14.5 (12/83)	0.4 (0.2–1.2)	0.07	0.3 (0.1–1.0)	0.04
Ax. temperature	n.a.	0.3 (0.1–0.6)	0.0008	0.2 (0.1–0.5)	0.0009
Parasite density
< 50,000/μL	26.3 (20/76)	1		1
≥ 50,000/μL	8.0 (4/50)	0.2 (0.1–0.8)	0.01	0.2 (0.1–0.8)	0.02
dhfr triple mutation
Absent	10.4 (7/67)	1		1
Present	28.8 (17/59)	3.5 (1.2–10.2)	0.009	3.2 (1.0–10.4)	0.049
crt 76 mutation
Absent	4.0 (1/25)	1		1
Present	22.8 (23/101)	7.1 (1.0–304)	0.04	14.5 (1.4–150.8)	0.02

Ax., axillary; n.a., not applicable