Table 3.

Prevalence of diarrhoea in patients who present with malaria in a malaria-endemic community setting.

References	Origin	Patient(s)	Study location	Case control study?	Patient recruitment	Retrospective/ Prospective	Malaria parasite diagnosis		Definition of diarrhoea	Patients with malaria, n	Patients reporting diarrhoea n, (%)	Comments
							Method	Species
Govardhini et al. (62)	India	Unclear age, sex	Community	Yes	Passive	Prospective	Microscopy	P. falciparum	None	976	46 (4.71%)	Table 1
Rogier et al. (79)	Senegal	Children and teenagers	Community	No	Active	Prospective	Microscopy	P. falciparum	Increased number (usually 3/day) of liquid stool	689	99 (14.37%)	Table 1
Branch et al. (80)	Peru	Children and adults	Community	No	Active	Prospective	Microscopy	P. falciparum, P. vivax	None	274	23 (8.39%)	–
Martins et al. (81)	Brazil	Children and adults (median 26y)	Community	No	Passive	Prospective	Microscopy	P. falciparum, P. vivax	None	171	17 (9.94%)	Table 2
Sum of data taken from all studies in table										2,110	185 (9%)