Table 2. Characteristics of study patient serum samples from endemic areas of Korea, Myanmar, Thailand and China and healthy individuals.
| Acute vivax patients | Healthy subjects | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Korea | Myanmar | Thailand | China | Korea |
| Total (n) | 50 | 50 | 37 | 20 | 50 |
| Age (year) | |||||
| Mean (SDa) | 34.9 (21.6) | 24.0 (8.5) | 31.5 (12.5) | 36.3 (16.5) | 9.1 (2.0) |
| Range | 12–89 | 10–52 | 18–70 | 17–58 | 6–13 |
| Parasitaemia (%) | |||||
| Mean (SD) | 0.102 (0.113) | 0.896 (0.118) | 0.099 (0.096) | 0.087 (0.016) | |
| Range | 0.002–0.570 | 0.009–0.801 | 0.006–0.305 | 0.009–0.204 | |
aSD: standard deviation.