Table 2.
Clinical characteristics at the time of recrudescent and new infection compared to participants at the end of the study without recurrent infection
| |
Distribution |
Odds ratio (95% CI) univariate |
P value |
Odds ratio (95% CI) Multivariate Recrudescent vs. new |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proportion (%) | |||||
| Fever | |||||
| No |
11/277(3.9) |
Referent |
|
|
|
| Recrudescent |
26/119 (21.8) |
6.8 (3.2-14.3) |
<.001 |
Referent |
|
| New |
13/84 (15.4) |
4.4 (1.9-10.3) |
.001 |
.6 (.2-1.5) |
.27 |
| Anaemia | |||||
| No |
137/275 (49.8) |
Referent |
|
|
|
| Recrudescent |
81/117 (69.2) |
2.3 (1.4-3.7) |
.001 |
Referent |
|
| New |
54/83 (65.1) |
1.9 (1.1-3.2) |
.017 |
1.5 (.7-3.2) |
.34 |
| |
Mean (95% CI) |
|
|
|
|
| Change in haemoglobin | |||||
| No |
.9 (.8-1.2) |
|
|
|
|
| Recrudescent |
.7 (.4-1.0) |
.2 |
Referent |
|
|
| New |
1.2 (.7-1.6) |
.4 |
1.3 (1.1-1.6) |
.01 |
|
| Multiplicity of infection | |||||
| No |
N/A |
|
|
|
|
| Recrudescent |
2.7 (2.3-3.0) |
|
Referent |
|
|
| New | 2.3 (2.1-2.6) | .1 | .8 (.6-1.0) | .05 | |