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Table 1 Study participants

From: Characterization of blood dendritic and regulatory T cells in asymptomatic adults with sub-microscopic Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium vivax infection

Characteristics

Values for indicated group [median (IQR)] or individual values

Control

Asymptomatic

Acute uncomplicated

Sub-microscopic

Sub-microscopic

Patent

Patent

Malaria

Malaria

P. falciparum

P. vivax

P. falciparum

P. vivax

P. falciparum

P. vivax

No. of subjects

 Total

83

19

15

17

19

6

8

 Female/male

46/37

10/9

8/7

12/5

14/5

4/2

5/3

 Papuan/non-Papuan

29/54

9/10

9/6

7/10

14/5

6/0

6/2

Age (years)

30 (25–37)

31 (26–36)

28 (21–31)

28 (24–36)

32 (30–36)

21 (20–24)*

27 (23–36)

Time resident in area (years)

12 (5–20)

10 (6–18)

9 (5–25)

10 (5–22)

10 (2–15)

NA

NA

No. of parasites/µl

ND

ND

ND

294 (82–2065)

210 (89–696)

24,725 (10,734–57,274)#

58,341 (10,778–89,678)#

Lymphocyte count (109/l)

2.5 (2.2–3.1)

2.2 (1.5–2.6)a

2.6 (2.2–3.7)

2.5 (1.7–2.8)

2.5 (1.8–3.7)

1.4 (0.7–1.6)**

1.0 (0.7–1.2)***

Monocyte count (109/l)

0.5 (0.4–0.6)

0.4 (0.3–0.7)

0.6 (0.4–0.7)

0.6 (0.5–0.7)a

0.5 (0.3–0.8)

0.7 (0.6–0.7)*

0.9 (0.4–1.4)a

  1. IQR interquartile range, ND no parasite detected by microscopy, NA data not available
  2. Significantly different to control, Kruskal–Wallis test with Dunn’s multiple comparisons
  3. * P < 0.05
  4. ** P < 0.005
  5. *** P < 0.0005
  6. #Significantly different to species-matched patent infection, Kruskal–Wallis test with Dunn’s multiple comparisons (P < 0.0005)
  7. aSignificantly different to control, Mann–Whitney U test (P < 0.05)