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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 13.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Apr;74(4):578–584.

Table 3.

Comparisons of children with severe malaria and during convalescence*

AA
αα/αα
AA
−α/αα
AA
−α/−α
P
No. 12 11 4
Age (months) 19.5 (10.4–32.3) 22.1 (12.6–40.9) 20.2 (19.9–29) 0.354
WBCs (106/mL)
 Acute 13.5 (8.2–20.0) 10.9 (6.9–20.0) 8.4 (8.1–11.2) 0.796
 Convalescent 11.7 (10.3–16.1) 9.9 (6.3–13.0) 8.0 (7.7–8.4) 0.067
RBC (109/mL)
 Acute 2.8 (2.0–4.2) 3.1 (1.9–3.8) 4.1 (3.8–4.1) 0.413
 Convalescent 3.4 (3.2–4.3) 3.5 (3.2–3.9) 4.4 (4.2–4.4) 0.128
Hb (mg/dL)
 Acute 7.3 (5.0–9.8) 7.7 (4.5–8.7) 7.5 (7.4–8.0) 0.948
 Convalescent 9.3 (8.5–10.9) 9.1 (8.9–9.8) 9.0 (8.8–9.6) 0.972
CD14 (× 103/mL)
 Acute 416 (119–616) 263 (207–628) 814 (152–756) 0.978
 Convalescent 530 (323–943) 9.93 (380–1,070) 204 (161–264) 0.158
pDC (× 103/mL)
 Acute 4.2 (2.3–10.0) 6.7 (4.0–11.3) 4.2 (2.6–20.4) 0.608
 Convalescent 10.4 (6.6–25) 14.5 (5.9–22.0) 2 (1.8–2.5) 0.022
mDC (× 103/mL)
 Acute 9.5 (7.5–12.7) 9.6 (3.1–23.1) 6.4 (4.8–24.8) 0.928
 Convalescent 17.0 (9.5–32.0) 15 (12.7–24) 5 (4.3–6.4) 0.045
*

WBCs = white blood cells; RBCs = red blood cells; Hb = hemoglobin; pDCs = plasma cytoid dendritic cells; mDCs = myeloid dendritic cells. Values in parentheses are 25th and 75th percentiles.

By Kruskal-Wallis H test for trend; degrees of freedom = 2.