Table 2.
A 6 years retrospective trend of malaria cases in the two localities of Dembiya District (2012–2017)
| No. of malaria parasite positive cases (values in parenthesis are %malaria cases) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study sites | Arebiya | Guramba Bata | ||||||||
| Age | No. examined | P.f (%) | P.v (%) | Mixed (%) | Total +ve(%)a | No. Examined | P.f (%) | P.v (%) | Mixed (%) | Total +ve(%)b |
| < 5 | 63 | 2 (3.2) | 4 (6.3) | 0 | 6 (9.5) | 66 | 9 (13.6) | 8 (12.1) | 0 | 17 (25.8) |
| 6–17 | 553 | 23 (4.2) | 17 (3.1) | 0 | 40 (7.2) | 418 | 23 (5.5) | 8 (1.9) | 8 (1.9) | 39 (9.3) |
| 18–64 | 792 | 187 (23.6) | 27 (3.4) | 12 (1.5) | 226(28.5) | 213 | 114 (53.5) | 20 (9.4) | 9 (4.2) | 143 (67.1) |
| > 65 | 41 | 9 (21.9) | 0 | 0 | 9 (21.9) | 11 | 0 | 4 (36.2) | 0 | 4 (36.4) |
| Total | 1449 | 221 (15.3) | 48 (3.3) | 12 (0.8) | 281 (19.4) | 708 | 146 (20.6) | 40 (5.6) | 17 (2.5) | 203 (28.7) |
| No. of malaria parasite positive cases (values in parenthesis are %malaria cases) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study sites | Arebiya | Guramba Bata | ||||||||
| Sex | No. examined | P.f (%) | P.v (%) | Mixed (%) | Total +ve (%)c | No. examined | P.f (%) | P.v (%) | Mixed (%) | Total +ve (%)d |
| Male | 931 | 207 (22.2) | 36 (3.9) | 11 (1.2) | 254 (27.3) | 398 | 110 (27.6) | 23 (5.8) | 10 (2.5) | 143 (35.9) |
| Female | 518 | 14 (2.7) | 12 (2.3) | 1 (0.2) | 27 (5.2) | 310 | 36 (11.6) | 17 (5.5) | 7 (2.3) | 60 (19.4) |
| Total | 1449 | 221 (15.3) | 48 (3.3) | 12 (0.8) | 281 (19.4) | 708 | 146 (20.6) | 40 (5.6) | 17 (2.4) | 203 (28.7) |
aχ2 = 111.8, df = 3, p = 0.000; bχ2 = 231.7, df = 3, p = 0.000; cχ2 = 102.3, df = 1, p = 0.000; dχ2 = 21.7, df = 1, p = 0.000