Table 1 |
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Baseline characterizes of participants in the HRP2 RDT evaluation study, Soroti Hospital, Uganda, October 2006 and September 2007 |
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| Cross-sectional component |
Longitudinal component |
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| Characteristics |
Microscopy result (n = 357) |
Follow-up events (= 310) |
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| Positive (n = 139) |
Negatives (n = 218) |
Completed (n = 224) |
Lost (n = 86) |
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| Female, n(%) |
64(40%) |
145(65%) |
122(55%) |
46(54) |
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| Age in years, median (IQR) |
1.0(0.8–6.0) |
23(3.0–34.0) |
1.3(0.8–2.0) |
1.2(0.7–1.6) |
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| Children less than 5 years, n(%) |
102 (73) |
61(28) |
All |
All |
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| Temperature °C, mean (SD) |
38.0(1.3) |
36.8(0.9) |
38.0 (1.2) |
37.8 (1.2) |
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| Anti-malarial use in previous 2 weeks |
54(39%) |
103(65%) |
156(70) |
58(67) |
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| Parasite density/μl, geometric mean |
60,074 |
- |
31,460 |
29,195 |
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| Gametocytes on day-zero, n (%) |
7(5%) |
- |
9(4%) |
4(5%) |
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| Weight in kilograms, mean(SD) |
- |
- |
10.0(2.7) |
9.4(2.4) |
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IQC, interquartile range: SD, standard deviation |
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Kyabayinze et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:221 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-221 |
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