The epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, pre- and post-implementation of national malaria control efforts

Table 1 Summary of demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants

	2005		2013		p-value
	n	%	n	%	p-value
Number of participants	2527		2486
Gender (female)	1331	52.7	1438	57.8	< 0.001
Age in years (median [range])	17 [0–80]		22 [0–68]		< 0.0001
Reported use of bed nets/LLINs	2231	88.3	2348	94.9	< 0.001
History of recent malaria infection	409	16.3	137	5.5	< 0.001
History of recent malaria treatment	195	8.0	145	5.87	0.003
Anaemia	2131/2486	85.7	1719/2382	72.2	< 0.001
Current or recent reported febrile illness	186	7.4	356	14.4	< 0.001
Clinical malaria (due to P. falciparum and/or P. vivax)	92	3.6	58	2.3	0.007

A more detailed comparison can be found in Additional file 2. Italics p-values are considered statistically significant (p < 0.05)

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