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Table 1 Percentage distribution of participants by age and malaria prevalence

From: Submicroscopic carriage of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in a low endemic area in Ethiopia where no parasitaemia was detected by microscopy or rapid diagnostic test

 

Age (years)

% of total (n/N)

Microscopy% of positive (n/N)

RDT% of positive (n/N)

nPCR

Pf% (n/N)

Pv% (n/N)

TQ site

≤5

40.5 (104/257)

–

–

7.7 (8/104)

9.6 (10/104)

6–15

21.4 (55/257)

–

–

3.6 (2/55)

5.5 (3/55)

>15

38.1 (98/257)

–

–

5.1 (5/98)

6.1 (6/98)

Total

    

5.8 (15/257)

7.4 (19/257)

SM4 site

≤5

20.5 (61/298)

–

–

9.8 (6/61)

1.6 (1/61)

6–15

28.9 (86/298)

–

–

3.5 (3/86)

2.3 (2/86)

>15

50.7 (151/298)

–

–

3.3 (5/151)

1.3 (2/151)

Total

    

4.7 (14/298)

1.7 (5/298)

  1. RDT rapid diagnostic test, nPCR nested polymerase chain reaction, Pf Plasmodium falciparum, Pv Plasmodium vivax. N refers to the total number of participants and n refers to the ones that belong to the classification or positive for the test. ‘–‘ refers to the negative cases.