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Table 2 Malaria infection rates in fever cases and controls in Yopougon, as well as odds ratio for parasitaemia, by age groups. Health facility-based surveys.

From: Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) III: epidemiology of urban malaria in the municipality of Yopougon (Abidjan)

 

Fever cases

Controls

OR

95% CI

P value

Fractions of malaria-attributable fevers

Age groups

N = 429

N = 383

    

Infants 0–1 year

18/78 (23.1%)

22/169 (13.0%)

2.00

0.95–4.22

<0.05

0.12

Children 1–5 years

61/142 (43.0%)

16/60 (26.7%)

2.07

1.02–4.24

<0.05

0.22

Children 6–15 years

39/89 (43.8%)

8/35 (22.9%)

2.63

1.00–7.11

0.05

0.27

Adults >15 years

31/120 (25.6%)

17/119 (14.3%)

2.09

1.04–4.25

<0.01

0.13