High levels of IgG3 anti ICB2-5 in Plasmodium vivax-infected individuals who did not develop symptoms

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Summary of epidemiological results

Characteristic	Result
Gender
Male (n(%))	180 (59)
Female (n(%))	124 (40.8%)
Total (n)	304*
Age (median (SD)) (Minimum-Maximum)	32.78 (SD 19.2592)
TR (years)
0-5	99 (35.1%)
6-15	98 (34.8%)
> 15	85 (30.1%)
Total	282*
NI (n (%))
0	22 (7.9%)
1-4	105 (37.5)
> 4	153 (54.6%)
Total	180*
LA (months)
0-1	28 (9.0%)
2-3	30 (9.6%)
4-5	13 (4.2%)
6-12	23 (7.4%)
>12	181 (58.0%)
Never had malaria or didn’t know	37 (11.9%)

*information obtained trough interview, some individuals didn’t know the information.
TR-Time of residence in Rio Pardo settlement, NI Number of previous infections, LA Time in months since the last malaria attack, INF malaria infection. We consider statistically significant p values lower than 0.05. The differences in proportions were evaluated by chi-square (_X²) test. For analysis between two continuous variable Spearman’s (SC).

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