Epidemiology of malaria in an area of seasonal transmission in Niger and implications for the design of a seasonal malaria chemoprevention strategy

Table 2 Repartition of asymptomatic malaria cases and gametocytes carriers by age group, (2007, 2008 and 2009)

Age group	Population	Number of	Number of
	size	asymptomatic	gametocytes carriers (%)
		cases (%)
<2 years	27	3 (11.1)	1 (33.3)
2-4 years	152	55 (36.2)	7 (12.7)
5-9 years	187	55 (29.4)	5 (9.1)
10-14 years	155	28 (18.1)	3 (10.7)
≥15 years	569	33 (5.8)	1 (3.0)
Total	1090	174 (16.0)	17 (9.8)
p-value*	-	<0.05	>0.05

*p-values were calculated using Chi squared test. A p-value <0.05 was considered significant.

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