Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of clinical malaria among suspected febrile individuals in Bonga, southwestern Ethiopia. * and ** represent a significant level of 0.05 and 0.01, respectively.
| Parameters | Number of samples |
Total infection |
Odds ratio (95% CI) |
P. vivax | Odds ratio (95% CI) |
P. falciparum | Odds ratio (95% CI) |
Mixed infection |
Odds ratio (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | |||||||||
| 297 | 23 (7.7%) | 17 (5.7%) | 12 (4.0%) | ||||||
| Gender | |||||||||
| Female | 176 (59.3%) | 29 | 1 | 14 (7.9%) | 1 | 10 (5.6%) | 1 | 5 (2.8%) | 1 |
| Male | 121 (40.7%) | 23 | 1.19[0.7–2.12] P=0.572 |
9 (7.4%) | 0.93[0.42–2.1] P=0.87 |
7 (5.7%) | 1.02[0.39–2.6] P=0.97 |
7 (5.7%) | 2.03[0.66–6.3] P=0.215 |
| Age | |||||||||
| ≥4 and <15 (%) | 5 (1.6%) | 3 | 1 | 2 (40%) | 1 | 1 (40%) | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| ≥15 and <35 (%) | 215 (72.3%) | 27 | 0.21[0.1–0.5] p=0.0001** |
16 (7.4%) | 0.18[0.057–0.6] P=0.005 |
13 (6.0%) | 0.30[0.1–1.9] P=0.20 |
8 (3.7%) | 0.47[0.03–7.3] P=0.591 |
| ≥35 and <50 (%) | 54 (18.1%) | 7 | 0.1[0.01–0.7] p=0.021* |
3 (5.5%) | 0.14[0.029–0.5] P=0.012 |
2 (3.7%) | 0.19[0.02–1.64] P=0.128 |
2 (3.7%) | 0.55[0.03–10.1] P=0.684 |
| ≥50 (%) | 23 (7.7%) | 5 | 0.2[0.02–1.43] p=0.106 |
2 (8.6%) | 0.22[0.039–1.2] P=0.079 |
1 (4.3%) | 0.22[0.02–2.92] P=0.249 |
2 (8.6%) | 1.25[0.07–22.8] P=0.88 |
| Occupation | |||||||||
| Indoor workera | 185 (62.2) | 32 | 1 | 12 (6.4%) | 1 | 14 (7.5%) | 1 | 6 (3.2%) | 1 |
| Open filed workerb | 112 (37.7) | 20 | 1.03[0.62–1.71] p=0.902 |
11 (9.8) | 1.51[0.69–3.32] P=0.299 |
3 (2.6%) | 0.35[0.104–1.2] P=0.096 |
6 (5.3%) | 1.65[0.55–4.99] P=0.374 |
a
Office clerks, teachers, shopkeepers, students, pre-school children and housekeeping (Indoor workers)
b
Farmers, daily laborer, construction workers, guardsman or soldiers, gardener, casual workers, and unemployed (Open filed workers)