Table 3.

Analysis of blood origin effect on parasitemia measurement adjusted on age, sex and village

	Trophozoite classa			Gametocyte classb
	Adjusted			Adjusted
	P value	OR	CI 95% [2.5–97.5%]	P value	OR	CI 95% [2.5–97.5%]
Sex
F		1			1
M	0.31	1.33	[0.77–2.31]	0.98	0.99	[0.49–2.02]
Agec
04–05		1			1
06–10	0.18	0.52	[0.20–1.36]	0.21	2.22	[0.65–7.60]
11–15	0.02	0.29	[0.10–0.85]	0.08	3.54	[0.88–14.3]
Blood origin
CB		1			1
VB	0.47	1.23	[0.72–2.08]	0. 98	1.01	[0.51–2.00]
Village random intercept	0.002			0.45
Ekali		1.71	[1.05–2.79]		0.72	[0.26–1.19]
Ekoko		0.44	[0.17–1.10]		0.97	[0.54–1.74]
Essazok		0.54	[0.21–1.38]		0.98	[0.54–1.76]
Koumou		1.13	[0.67–1.90]		0.99	[0.62–1.59]
Metet		2.52	[1.34–4.74]		0.72	[0.43–1.23]
Nkilzok		0.52	[0.29–0.95]		0.93	[0.56–1.57]
Nkolnda		1.67	[0.86–3.25]		1.23	[0.73–2.06]

n total samples, venous and capillary blood pairs from 137 volunteers

^aTrophozoite class 0 = [0], class 1 = [1–5000], class 2 = [>5000]

^bGametocyte class 0 = [0], class 1 = [1–250], class 2 = [>250]

^cAge at the time of inclusion