Table 3.

Age and parasitaemia on admission by site

	N	Parasitaemia (μ/L)	Age (year)
Site	total	geometric mean	Under five years old	median	minimum	maximum
Cameroon	166	24627	44%	6.2	1.0	65.0
Gabon	216	22597	42%	5.4	1.3	10.8
Kenya	397	30988	80%	2.0	.5	11.0
Madagascar	178	9203	32%	7.5	1.4	53.1
Mali-Bancouna	201	22386	54%	4.7	.9	24.3
Mali-Bougoula	753	15468	91%	2.5	.6	13.7
Rwanda-kicukiro	313	27938	99%	3.0	.6	5.0
Rwanda-mashesha	391	18462	99%	3.0	.5	5.0
Rwanda-rukara	365	33615	100%	2.0	.5	4.9
Senegal	392	19142	50%	5.0	.9	64.0
Uganda-Kampala	728	10552	37%	6.1	1.1	11.5
Zanzibar-Kivunge	297	16500	97%	2.5	.5	6.5
Zanzibar-Micheweni	105	16777	99%	2.1	.5	5.0
Total	4502	18425	72%	3.4	.5	65.0