Table 2. Malaria episodes in each age category.

Age	N	Occurrence of malariaa	Number of malaria episodesb
1–2	40	67.5	1.7 (1.5)
3–4	54	79.6	1.7 (1.5)
5–6	48	83.3	2.1 (1.5)
7–8	61	77.0	1.6 (1.3)
9–10	58	53.4	0.8 (0.9)
11–12	51	45.1	0.8 (1.1)
13–16	57	19.3	0.2 (0.6)
17–30	48	6.3	0.1 (0.3)
31–40	38	10.5	0.1 (0.3)
>40	45	6.7	0.1 (0.4)
Total	500	46.4	0.9 (1.3)

^a Proportion (%) of individuals who experienced any malaria episodes

^b Arithmetic mean (standard deviation)