Table 2.
Clinical presentations of HIV-infected patients according to CD4 cell category
| Characteristic | Present n (%) |
Absent n (%) |
χ2 | p-value |
| CM* (fever and MP density > 1,400 parasites/µL) | ||||
| ≥500 cell/µL | 0 (0.0) | 28 (100) | ||
| 200–499 cell/µL | 1 (2.6) | 38 (97.4) | ||
| <200 cell/µL | 9 (30.0) | 21 (70.0) | 18.3 | 0.0001 |
| Febrile parasitaemia† | ||||
| ≥500 cell/µL | 1 (3.6) | 27 (96.4) | ||
| 200–499 cell/µL | 2 (5.1) | 37 (94.9) | ||
| <200 cell/µL | 12 (40.0) | 18 (60.0) | 20.0 | <0.0001 |
| Fever without malaria parasitaemia | ||||
| ≥500 cell/µL | 6 (21.4) | 22 (78.6) | ||
| 200–499 cell/µL | 8 (20.5) | 31 (79.5) | ||
| <200 cell/µL | 7 (23.3) | 23 (76.7) | 0.08 | 0.96 |
*
CM= clinical malaria, MP= malaria parasite
†
Febrile parasitaemia= co-existing fever and malaria parasitaemia irrespective of parasite density.