Table 1 Characteristics of study Plasmodium vivax samples from endemic areas of Korea, Myanmar, Thailand and China
Characteristic | Value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acute vivax patients | 1Â month | Recovery subjects (China) | Healthy subjects (Korea) | |||||
Korea | Myanmar | Thailand | follow-up | 5Â year | 12Â year | 30Â year | ||
Total (n) | 112 | 56 | 56 | 25 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 80 |
Age (year) | ||||||||
 Mean (SD) | 25.5 (9.50) | 23.3 (8.50) | 30.1 (12.46) | 21.6 (7.85) | 52.5 (22.52) | 49.3 (16.47) | 62 (13.0) | 9.5 (3.30) |
 Range | 4–79 | 8–52 | 16–70 | 14–45 | 7–85 | 19–78 | 40–84 | 6–13 |
Parasitaemia (%) | ||||||||
 Mean (SD) | 0.128 (0.11) | 0.082 (0.11) | 0.130 (0.12) |  |  |  |  |  |
 Range | 0.012–0.45 | 0.009–0.801 | 0.006–0.400 |  |  |  |  |  |