Table 3

Chloroquine prevalence in urines of children between two and nine years of age according to children characteristics.

Variables
N*
 CQ+†
 Prevalence of
presence of CQ‡ %
 crude OR
 95%CI
 p
Sex
 Male
 1524
 618
 41
 1.00



Female
 1528
 644
 42
 1.07
 0.90
 1.26
 0.458
Age
 2–5 years old
 1419
 691
 49
 1.00



6–9 years old
 1633
 571
 35
 0.74
 0.63
 0.89
 0.001
Fever during the preceeding 3 days
 without
 2252
 852
 38
 1.00



with
 800
 410
 51
 1.24
 1.02
 1.50
 0.032
Antimalarial treatment during the preceding 7 days
 no
 2652
 995
 38
 1.00



yes
 400
 267
 67
 1.90
 1.46
 2.47
 0.000
Travel during the preceding 30 days
 no
 2930
 1203
 41
 1.00



yes
 122
 59
 48
 1.52
 1.00
 2.30
 0.048
Malaria infection
 no
 974
 466
 48
 1.00



yes
 1939
 718
 37
 0.60
 0.49
 0.74
 0.000
Asexual Plasmodium falciparum infections
 no
 1094
 518
 47
 1.00



yes
 1819
 666
 37
 0.61
 0.50
 0.75
 0.000

*N number of samples of urine, † CQ+ = number of samples with chloroquine in urines, ‡ CQ: Chloroquine.

Logistic regression model with random effect taking into account the interdependency of observations made within the same site.

Gardella et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:124   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-124

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