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. 2022 Jan 6;21:9. doi: 10.1186/s12936-021-04029-x

Table 3.

Malaria positivity by microscopy, RDT and multiplex real time PCR among study participants, December 2019 to March 2020, Ethiopia

Characteristics Malaria positivity
Microscopy (n = 51)% RDT (n = 61)% Multiplex real time PCR (n = 88)%
Sex
 Female (n = 123) 15 (29.4) 17 (27.9) 35 (40)
 Male (n = 148) 36 (70.6) 44 (72.1) 53 (60)
Age group
 0–5 5 (9.8) 5 (8.2) 7 (8)
 6–15 11 (21.5) 13 (21.3) 17 (19)
 16–25 23 (45) 29 (47.5) 38 (43)
 26–40 10 (19.6) 11 (18) 20 (23)
 41–64 2 (3.9) 3 (5) 6 (7)
 ≥ 65 0 0 0