Table 5.

Parasitological data on asexual stages of malaria parasites in 692 severely-ill children of ages 1-8 years at the Emergency Paediatric Unit, UMTH, Maiduguri, Nigeria during the hot warm season

Season	Months	No. Examined	No. Positive for malaria parasites (%)	No. Negative for malaria parasite (%)	Geometric mean asexual parasite density/(Asexual parasite/μl)	Parasite density range (Asexual parasite/μl)	Frequency of patients in density classes (Asexual parasite/μl)
							<1000	1000-5000	>5000
Hot/warm season	Feb	90	18 (20.0)	73 (80.0)	28.98	16 – 1600	18	0	0
	Mar	65	4 (6.5)	61 (93.85	0.98	0 – 64	4	0	0
	Apr	29	8 (38.0)	21 (62.0)	7.17	16 – 48	8	0	0
	May	58	9 (15.5)	49 (84.6)	4.69	16 – 94	9	0	0
	Jun	49	16 (32.7)	33 (67.3)	16.98	16 – 400	16	0	0
	Total	281	54 (19.3)	227 (80.7)			54	0	0