. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 2.

Published in final edited form as: ISRN Trop Med. 2013;2013:1–9. doi: 10.1155/2013/673798

Table 1.

Comparison of signs and symptoms between parasitemic (smear positive) and nonparasitemic (smear negative) patients.

Parameters	Smear negative (n = 309) Number (%)	Smear positive (n = 61) Number (%)	P value
Vomiting	87 (28.2)	24 (39.3)	0.058
Headache	280 (90.6)	59 (96.7)	0.085
Joint pains	252 (82.6)	53 (86.9)	0.21
Chills and rigors	218 (70.6)	40 (65.6)	0.27
Diarrhea	74 (23.9)	14 (23.0)	0.51
Body weakness	286 (92.6)	57 (16.6)	0.53
Sclera of eyes (jaundice)	16 (5.2)	4 (20.0)	0.43
Pallor of conjunctiva	20 (6.5)	4 (16.7)	0.58
Dry tongue	114 (36.9)	22 (36.1)	0.51

At 95% confidence interval, a P value < 0.05 was considered significant.