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Table 2 Characteristics of the study population

From: Investigation of a possible malaria epidemic in an illegal gold mine in French Guiana: an original approach in the remote Amazonian forest

 

Whole assessed population

N = 46

Mining site

Others

N = 3

p value

Sophie

N = 26

Dagobert

N = 12

Repentir

N = 5

Sociodemographic data

 Population

  Estimated population in the mining site

na

36

37

200

na

 

  Proportion of population assessed

na

72.2%

32.4%

2.5%

na

 

 Sex

  Male

37 (80.4%)

23 (88.5%)

9 (75%)

4 (80%)

1 (33.3%)

0.137

  Female

9 (19.6%)

3 (11.5%)

3 (25%)

1 (20%)

2 (66.7%)

 Place of birth

  Brazil

46 (100%)

26 (100%)

12 (100%)

5 (100%)

3 (100%)

0.042

   Maranhão

17 (37%)

12

3

0

2

   Para

12 (26.1%)

6

6

0

0

   Amapa

4 (8.7%)

1

1

2

0

   Other states

12 (26.1%)

7

2

2

1

   Missing data

1 (2.2%)

0

0

1

0

 Time in gold mining (in months)

  Average (sd)

73 (± 94)

92 (± 85)

53 (± 62)

26 (± 52)

145 (± 248)

 

  Median [interquartile range]

48 [8–120]

78 [36–120]

30 [0.75–96]

5 [1–5]

3 [1–432]

 

Medical data

 Malaria crises in the last 3 months (declared)

  At least one

21 (45.7%)

14

6

1

0

0.219

  None

22 (47.8%)

11

5

3

3

  Missing data

3 (6.5%)

1

1

1

0

  Malaria attack rate in the last 3 months

na

53.8% [34.6–73]

50% [21.7–78.3]

20% [− 15.1 to 55.1]

na

 

 RDT

  Number of RDTs performed

13

7

4

1

1

 

  Number of RDTs positive

2

1 Pf

1 non-Pf

0

0

 

 PCR

  Number of PCR performed

43

25

11

5

2

0.403

  Number of PCR positive

19

15

2

1

1

  Prevalence [IC95%]

44.2% [29.4–59]

60% [40.8–79.2]

18.2% [− 4.7 to 40.7]

a

a

  Asymptomatics carriers

15 (78.9%)

12 (80%)

1 (50%)

1 (100%)

1 (100%)

 
  1. aNot calculated because of sample size