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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants

From: Relationship of regulatory T cells to Plasmodium falciparum malaria symptomatology in a hypoendemic region

Plasmodium falciparum infection status

Characteristics

Symptomatic

Asymptomatic

Control

P value

 

(S)

(AS)

(C)

(C vs. S)

(C vs. AS)

(S vs. AS)

No. of subjects

n = 15

n = 11

n = 7

   

Gender (% male)

60.00%

55.55%

71.43%

   

Median age (year) [range]

28 [9–59]

17 [12–41]

30 [22–34]

0.589

0.389

0.42

No. of Leukocytes (109/L)*

5.0 [4.3–6.0]

5.7 [5.1–7.6]

5.5 [4.2–6.5]

0.203

0.276

0.002

No. of Lymphocytes (109/L)*

1.41 [0.93–2.1]

1.78 [1.28–2.58]

2.0 [1.4–2.6]

0.0054

0.389

0.018

No. of Tregs (106/L)*

7.88 [3.38–24.08]

8.66 [5.01–16.06]

11.09 [8.88–11.62]

0.29

0.297

0.979

Parasitaemia**

5999 [71–52,900]

1 [1–2874]

NA

NA

NA

0.0003

  1. *Median [range] and means, the value of 50 percentile [min – max].
  2. **N° of parasites ml-1.
  3. P values are from Mann–Whitney U test (to compare two non-parametric group distributions by rank).
  4. The proportion of male gender was compared by Chi-square test. Only for gender the test was the Chi-square test used.