Table 1. Baseline characteristics of MDA intervention and corresponding control clusters.
| Intervention Clusters | Control Clusters | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census N | Female | Age (years) | uPCR N | P. falciparum infections | P. vivax infections | Un-speciated malaria | Total malaria infections | Census N | Female | Age (years) | uPCR N | P. falciparum infections | P. vivax infections | |
| Pair 1 | 283 | 136 (48) | 16 [7,31] | 57 | 15 (26) | 21 (37) | 4 (7) | 39 (68) | 132 | 73 (55) | 20 [9,41] | 33 | 10 (30) | 7 (21) |
| Pair 2 | 468 | 244 (52) | 14 [7,25] | 63 | 22 (35) | 23 (37) | 0 (0) | 39 (62) | 189 | 102 (54) | 19 [9,37] | 37 | 10 (27) | 6 (16) |
| Pair 3 | 246 | 125 (51) | 19 [9,36] | 55 | 7 (13) | 19 (35) | 0 (0) | 24 (44) | 208 | 103 (50) | 17 [8,33] | 49 | 9 (18) | 14 (29) |
| Pair 4 | 313 | 152 (49) | 18 [7,34] | 51 | 10 (20) | 8 (16) | 0 (0) | 20 (39) | 320 | 171 (53) | 16.5 [6,32] | 59 | 11 (19) | 23 (39) |
| Pair 5 | 1279 | 609 (48) | 22 [9,40] | 184 | 23 (13) | 41 (22) | 5 (3) | 74 (40) | 545 | 276 (51) | 19 [7,35] | 66 | 13 (20) | 22 (33) |
| Pair 6 | 810 | 414 (51) | 18 [9,35] | 76 | 11 (15) | 20 (27) | 2 (3) | 38 (50) | 816 | 412 (50) | 20 [10,38] | 72 | 12 (17) | 9 (13) |
| Pair 7 | 1135 | 650 (57) | 19 [8,36] | 76 | 8 (11) | 5 (7) | 1 (1) | 13 (17) | 707 | 349 (49) | 22 [10,38] | 60 | 5 (8) | 11 (18) |
| Pair 8 | 947 | 475 (50) | 19 [9,38] | 75 | 5 (7) | 13 (17) | 4 (5) | 25 (33) | 323 | 150 (46) | 18 [7,35] | 55 | 4 (7) | 14 (25) |
| Total | 5481 | 2805 (51) | 19 [8,36] | 637 | 101 (16) | 150 (24) | 16 (3) | 272 (43) | 3240 | 1636 (50) | 20 [8,36] | 431 | 74 (17) | 106 (25) |
n (%) and medians [25th, 75th percentile] are presented.
uPCR = ultrasensitive high volume Polymerase Chain Reaction quantitative malaria test.
Percentages in total rows are unweighted.