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Table 2 Malaria episode details and symptoms in Karen and Burmese pregnant women according to species

From: Thrombocytopaenia in pregnant women with malaria on the Thai-Burmese border

 

Plasmodium falciparum

Plasmodium vivax

Geometric mean [range] parasitaemia/μL

2,288 [6–569,634]

273 [1–82,934]

Median episode number

1 [1–9]

1 [1–10]

Median EGA, weeks

22.4 [4–42]

24.3 [5–40.6]

Proportion with splenomegaly

10.5 (66/628)

2.0 (8/399)

Median [range] spleen size, cm

3 [1–13]

3 [1–4]

Proportion with hepatomegaly

15.7 (99/630)

5.8 (23/399)

Median [range] liver, cm

3 [1–9]

2 [1–5]

Proportion of asymptomatic episodes

18.9 (131/694)

30.4 (159/523)

Proportion febrile (admission)

27.6 (180/652)

10.8 (52/482)

Proportion women with a history of fever

58.6 (407/694)

28.5 (149/523)

Median days of fever

2 [1–30]

2 [1–9]

Proportion headache

58.0 (393/678)

45.7 (233/510)

Proportion dizziness

34.9 (237/679)

34.9 (178/510)

Proportion joint pain

38.1 (259/679)

34.7 (177/510)

Proportion anorexia

35.8 (243/678)

23.7 (121/510)

Proportion nausea

26.7 (181/679)

22.5 (115/510)

  1. Please note that headache, dizziness, joint pain, anorexia and nausea symptoms were not recorded for 16 and 13 episodes of falciparum and vivax, respectively.