Table 1.
Associations of Schistosoma spp. with age, sex, and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) status of the cohort. Significance was calculated by applying a student’s t-test and Fisher’s two-sided exact test. Above each assessed parameter, the numbers of cases and percentages are given, for which the respective parameter was recorded. The total numbers, n, differ from 1079 due to partly incomplete datasets. p-values ≤ 0.05 were considered as indicators of statistical significance of differences between the compared groups.
|
S. mansoni Positive |
S. mansoni Negative |
p-Value |
S. haematobium Positive |
S. haematobium Negative |
p-Value |
S. mansoni and/or S. haematobium Positive |
S. mansoni and/or S. haematobium Negative |
p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | 36 (3.4) | 1014 (96.6) | 5 (0.5) | 1045 (99.5) | 41 (3.9) | 1009 (96.1) | |||
| Age in years ± SD | 37.1 ± 7.2 | 39.6 ± 10.0 | 0.1432 | 27.2 ± 4.8 | 39.6 ± 9.9 | 0.0040 | 35.9 ± 7.7 | 39.7 ± 10.0 | 0.0165 |
| n (%) | 36 (3.4) | 1015 (96.6) | 5 (0.5) | 1046 (99.5) | 41 (3.9) | 1010 (96.1) | |||
| Male, n (%) | 17 (47.22) | 245 (24.14) | 0.003 | 2 (40.00) | 260 (24.86) | 0.603 | 19 (46.34) | 243 (24.06) | 0.003 |
| n (%) | 36 (3.4) | 1036 (96.6) | 5 (0.5) | 1067 (99.5) | 41 (3.8) | 1031 (96.2) | |||
| HIV positive, n (%) | 36 (100.00) | 933 (90.06) | 0.042 | 3 (60.00) | 966 (90.53) | 0.075 | 39 (95.12) | 930 (90.20) | 0.420 |
n = number; SD = standard deviation.