Malaria Journal

Table 2 Age groups of symptomatic, PCR-confirmed malaria-infected patients in Djibouti city in 2019–2021

From: Molecular investigation of malaria-infected patients in Djibouti city (2018–2021)

Year	Age groups
	< 18 years		19–34 years		> 34 years		Total
	n	%	n	%	n	%	N	%
PCR-negative
2019	2	12	9	53	6	35	17	7
2020	12	15	28	36	38	49	78	33
2021	59	43	25	18	54	39	138	59
Total	73	31	62	27	98	42	233	100
PCR-positive
2019	9	16	34	61	13	23	56	9
2020	32	13	92	37	124	50	248	42
2021	121	42	81	28	85	30	287	49
Total	162	27	207	35	222	38	591	100

N, Total number of samples; n, number of samples in each age group. Age of patients was not recorded in 2018

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