Table 1.

Association between P. falciparum asymptomatic carriage or clinical malaria occurrence and other covariates at the beginning of the malaria transmission season, Niakhar, 2002.

	MMA			P. falciparum asymptomatic carriage
	Number	(%)	p value*	Number	(%)	P value	Total Number
P. falciparum asymptomatic carriage
Yes	8	5,4	0,005				147
No	4	1,0					382
Age (years)
[2–5]	3	2,6	0,93	29	25,4	0,56	114
[6–10]	5	2,1		64	26,8		239
[11–17]	4	2,3		54	30,7		176
Sex
M	7	2,3	0,95	94	30,9	0,06	304
F	5	2,2		53	23,6		225
Village
Diohine	5	1,7	0,34	63	21,5	< 0,001	292
Toucar	7	2,9		84	35,4		237
Chloroquine in urine a
Yes	0	0	-	9	25	0,74	36
No	12	2,6		129	27,6		468

^a Data available for 504 children