. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Jul 15.

Published in final edited form as: J Infect Dis. 2006 Jun 13;194(2):208–205. doi: 10.1086/505078

Table 2.

Clinical features of the two patient groups: presumed cerebral malaria (CM) and assumed cerebral malaria with nonmalaria causes of death identified at autopsy (NMCD).

Measurement	CM group, mean (range)^a	NMCD group, mean (range)^a	P^b
Parasitemia on admission, parasites/μL	72,852 (463–782,320)	13,384 (266–338,303)	.11
Parasitemia at death, parasites/μL	66,328 (307–280,000)	24,258 (133–275,020)	.18
Time in the hospital, h	18.5 (4.0–38.0)	20.2 (1.0–83.0)	.84
Duration of coma, h	20.1 (10.0–40.0)	21.9 (5.0–84.0)	.77

NOTE. For both patient groups, n = 11.

Geometric mean for parasitemia on admission and parasitemia at death.

Mann-Whitney U test was used for parasitemia, and Student’s t test was used for durations.