Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Group 1 | Group 2 | ||||
| Persistent malaria | Recent malaria | No malaria | Persistent malaria | Recent malaria | |
| Number of patients | 16 | 15 | 17 | 8 | 39 |
| Age1 (years) | 2 (1–12) | 4 (0.5–10) | 2 (0.5–12) | 5.8 (1.5–10) | 5.8 (1–12) |
| Temperature on admission1 (°C) | 37.0 (36.0–38.5) | 38.0 (36.7–38.6) | 37.5 (36.6–39.5) | 37.2 (36.8–38.8) | 38.2 (36.0–40.0) |
| Sex (boys:girls) | 12:4 | 7:8 | 10:7 | 5:3 | 23:15 |
| Haemoglobin1 (g/dl) | 3.4 (2.1–10.2) | 4.4 (1.6–11.6) | 9.8 (1.5–11.8) | 6.6 (4.7–10.5) | 9.2 (5.2–12.0) |
| TNF-α (pg/ml)2 | 16.2 (6.9–38.0) | 13.5 (6.5–27.5) | 5.4 (1.2–23.4) | 6.2 (0.6–63.1) | 8.7 (5.5–13.5) |
| IL-10 (pg/ml)2 | 56.2 (15.8–208.2) | 29.5 (7.8–112.2) | 3.0 (0.9–9.8) | 8.9 (3.6–21.9) | 8.3 (5.8–11.7) |
| IL-10/TNF-α2 | 1.9 (1.0–3.6) | 1.4 (0.4–5.6) | 1.0 (0.5–2.3) | 1.7 (0.1–46.8) | 1.0 (0.5–2.0) |
1: median (range)
2: mean (95% CI)