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. 2020 Nov 17;11:559255. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.559255

TABLE 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study participants.

Characteristics	Controls	Submicroscopic	Microscopic	P-value
Sample size (n)	18	22	38
Sex (n)
Male	8	11	16	0.84^a
Female	10	11	22
Age (IQR) years	9 (6.75–11)	11.5 (9–13.25)	10.5 (9–12)	0.021^b
Parasitemia (IQR), /μl	NA	NA	935.5 (269.3–1990)	NA
Hemoglobin, level (IQR), g/dl	10.85 (10.68–12.0)	11.05 (10.65–12.03)	11.05 (10.5–12.7)	0.98^b
Temperature (IQR), °C	36.8 (36.55–36.85)	36.80 (36.6–36.9)	36.9 (36.6–36.9)	0.49^b

IQR, interquartile range; NA, not applicable. ^aChi square test. ^bKruskal–Wallis test.