Table 1 Characteristics of study participants

From: Gene expression analyses reveal differences in children’s response to malaria according to their age

Variable

Median [range]

Participant’s age (years)

5 [1–15]

Parasitemia (parasites/µL)

26,675 [48–622,775]

No. of subsequent symptomatic malaria episodesa

5 [0–14]

Time to next symptomatic malaria episode (days)a

86.5 [140]

  

Count (%)

Participant Ethnicity

Dogon

101 (74%)

Other

35 (26%)

Complexity of Infectionb

Monoclonal infection

49 (36%)

Polyclonal infection

87 (64%)

Participant’s sex

Male

72 (53%)

Female

64 (47%)

  1. aOnly the subset of participants with at least 2 years of follow-up after the sample collection were included for statistical analyses. Note that these values were subsequently normalized (by the monthly risk of malaria and the child’s total time in the study) for statistical analyses.
  2. bComplexity of infection estimated from polymorphisms determined from the RNA-seq data.
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