Clinical profile of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections in low and unstable malaria transmission settings of Colombia

Table 1 Demographic data and malaria history per parasite species

		*P. falciparum* (n = 650)		*P. vivax* (n = 673)		p value ^b
		Median	IQR ^a	Median	IQR
Age (years)		24	16-38	19	12-33	<0.001
Time of residence (years)		4	1-4	4	3-4	0.365
Previous malaria episodes		2	1-3	3	1-5	<0.001
Days of illness		4	2-6	4	3-5	0.689
Frequencies		n	%	n	%	p value ^c
Male		334	51.4	399	59.3	0.004
Race
	Afro-descendant	526	80.9	230	34.2	<0.001
	Mestizo	91	14.0	415	61.7	<0.001
	Indigenous	28	4.3	22	3.3	0.322
Occupation
	Student	237	36.5	226	33.6	0.272
	Housewife	177	27.2	150	22.3	0.037
	Farmer	47	7.2	141	21.0	<0.001
	Other^d	189	29.1	155	23	0.251
Previous malaria episodes (YES)		222	34.2	452	67.2	<0.001
Malaria episodes in the last year		65	29.2	232	51.3	<0.001
Anti-malarial treatment^e		43	19.4	314	69.5	<0.001

^aIQR: interquartile range. ^bp value using Mann–Whitney test between P. falciparum and P. vivax. ^cp value using the Chi-square test between P. falciparum and P. vivax. ^dfisherman, miner, timber exploitation, other. ^etreatment for the last malaria episode. Most frequent and significant data are highlighted in bold.

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