Table 3.
Summary of first-time and overall (total new) malaria incidence during the study
First-time infection | Overall (total new) infections | |||||
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All clusters | Subgroup 1* | Subgroup 2† | All clusters | Subgroup 1* | Subgroup 2† | |
SR: placebo | ||||||
No. of clusters | 12:12 | 10:9 | 6:6 | 12:12 | 10:9 | 6:6 |
No. of households | 665:667 | 557:500 | 335:335 | 665:667 | 557:500 | 335:335 |
No. of infections | 134:164 | 130:158 | 93:140 | 253:439 | 249:433 | 196:408 |
Person years | 1079:1032 | 873:722 | 506:444 | 1216:1216 | 1015:909 | 609:607 |
Incidence rate (per person-year) | 0.124:0.159 | 0.149:0.219 | 0.184:0.315 | 0.208:0.361 | 0.245:0.476 | 0.322:0.672 |
Hazard ratio (90% CI) | 0.723 (0.431,1.213) | 0.64 (0.299, 1.367) | 0.447 (0.302, 0.664) | 0.687 (0.426,1.108) | 0.591 (0.382, 0.914) | 0.344 (0.233, 0.508) |
Protective efficacy (%) (90% CI) | 27.7 (−21.3, 56.9) | 33.3 (−7.8, 58.7) | 55.3 (33.6, 69.9) | 31.3 (−10.8, 57.4) | 40.9 (8.61, 61.8) | 65.6 (49.2, 76.7) |
One-sided P-value | 0.151 | 0.083 | 0.0004 | 0.098 | 0.0236 | < 0.0001 |
SR = spatial repellent.
Subgroup 1: clusters with nonzero incidence during intervention.
Subgroup 2: clusters with entomology data collected (moderate to high risk of infection).