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Table 1 General characteristics of the study participants

From: Differentiating between dengue fever and malaria using hematological parameters in endemic areas of Thailand

 

Dengue

N = 347

Plasmodium sp. malaria

N = 336

P-value

(OR, 95%CI)

Demographic

Age, median (IQR)

19 (10–31)

19 (11–34)

0.299*

Male/female, n (%)

168 (48.4)/179 (51.6)

206 (61.3)/130 (38.7)

0.001**

(0.59, 0.44–0.80)

Thai/non-Thai, n (%)

257 (74.1)/90 (25.9)

175 (52.1)/161 (47.9)

<0.0001**

(2.6, 1.91–3.62)

  1. *Comparison of the two groups was done using the Mann-Whitney U Test
  2. **Comparison of the two groups was done using the chi-square test
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty

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