Table 1.
Epidemiological characteristics of study participants
| Malaria diagnosis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | Total | P-value | ||
| n = 98 | n = 259 | n = 357 | |||
| Gender n (%) | Female | 30 (19.4) | 125 (80.6) | 155 (43.4) | 0.003 |
| Male | 68 (33.7) | 134 (66.3) | 202 (56.6) | ||
| Age (years) | 30.2 ± 11.6 | 30.5 ± 15.5 | 30.4 ± 14.5 | 0.862 | |
| Time of residence in endemic area | 25.6 ± 11.5 | 24.2 ± 13.1 | 24.5 ± 12.7 | 0.352 | |
| Previous malaria infection | 7.7 ± 12.4 | 11.7 ± 15.2 | 10.6 ± 14.5 | 0.021 | |
| Time since last malaria infection | 29.7 ± 69.4 | 41.6 ± 66.7 | 38.3 ± 67.5 | 0.137 | |
| Previous Plasmodium species | |||||
| P. vivax | 35 (47.3) | 71 (32.0) | 106 (35.8) | ||
| P. falciparum | 1 (1.4) | 13 (5.9) | 14 (4.7) | 0.236 | |
| P. vivax/P. falciparum | 38 (51.3) | 137 (61.6) | 175 (59.1) | ||
| Current Plasmodium species | |||||
| P. vivax | – | – | 71 (72.5) | ||
| P. falciparum | – | – | 26 (26.5) | < 0.0001 | |
| P. vivax/P. falciparum | – | – | 1 (1.0) | ||
Gender: n (%); Age: mean ± SD; Time of residence in endemic area (years): mean ± SD; Previous malaria infection: mean ± SD; Time since the last malaria infection (months): mean ± SD; Previous Plasmodium species: n (%); Current Plasmodium species: n (%)