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Table 2 Demographic and malaria parasite characteristics – Plasmodium vivax population

From: Performance of a sensitive haemozoin‐based malaria diagnostic test validated for vivax malaria diagnosis in Brazilian Amazon

Characteristic

Value, n (%)

Gender

 Male

163 (59.1)

 Female

113 (40.9)

Age (mean, SD)

40.4 (± 18.8)

Previous malaria episode

 Yes

168 (60.9)

 No

108 (39.1)

 Parasite density per µL (mean, SD)

6,220 (± 8,254)

 Parasite range (min, max)

18–73, 815

Parasitaemia density distribution (parasite/µL)

 < 1,000

34 (26.1)

 1,000–10,000

90 (69.2)

 > 10,000

6 (4.6)

  1. n number of subjects, min  minimum value, max  maximum value, SD  standard deviation