Table 4 Proportion of Plasmodium species in asymptomatic and symptomatic school-age children by location
|  | Rural area (N = 270) | Urban area (N = 192) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Asymptomatic (N = 168) | Symptomatic (N = 102) | Asymptomatic (N = 98) | Symptomatic (N = 94) | |||||
Type of Plasmodium infection | ||||||||
 Single infection | 96 | 57.1 | 80 | 78.4 | 82 | 83.7 | 70 | 74.5 |
 Mixed infection | 72 | 42.9 | 22 | 21.6 | 16 | 16.3 | 24 | 25.5 |
Plasmodium species composition | ||||||||
 P. falciparum | 89 | 53.0 | 79 | 77.4 | 73 | 74.5 | 68 | 72.3 |
 P. malariae | 3 | 1.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 5.1 | 2 | 2.1 |
 P. ovale spp. | 4 | 2.4 | 1 | 1.0 | 4 | 4.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
 P. falciparum + P. malariae | 41 | 24.4 | 3 | 3.9 | 9 | 9.2 | 10 | 10.6 |
 P. falciparum + P. ovale spp. | 9 | 5.4 | 14 | 13.7 | 2 | 2.0 | 8 | 8.5 |
 P. malariae + P.ovale spp. | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
 P. falciparum + P.malariae + P. ovale spp. | 22 | 13.1 | 4 | 3.9 | 3 | 3.1 | 6 | 6.4 |