Table 2.

Comparison of malaria prevalence and parasitaemia by age groups

Age group	Positive	OR (CI)p*	Parasitaemia in copies/µL median (IQR)	p†
Under 5	5% (14/260)	ref.	22 (4-236)	ref.
5-15 years	15% (20/131)	1.10 (1.04-1.17) 0.001	65 (25-488)	0.30
16-30 years	13% (15/119)	1.07 (1.01-1.14) 0.020	111 (6-427)	0.41
Over 30	6% (14/217)	1.01 (0.96-1.06) 0.678	28 (0.05-170)	0.65

* Logistic regression (glm in R)

^†Kruskal–Wallis test and pairwise Wilcoxon rank sum test for multiple comparisons