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Table 1 Patient’s baseline characteristics

From: Cytokine profiles among patients co-infected with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and soil borne helminths attending Kampala International University Teaching Hospital, in Uganda

 

Male

Female

Total

P value

Soil-borne helminths

30 (12.5%)

33 (13.8%)

63 (26.3%)

0.539

 Ascaris lumbricoides

38 (39.6%)

34 (35.4%)

72 (75.0%)

 

 Hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus)

13 (13.5%)

7 (7.3%)

20 (20.8%)

 

 Trichuris trichiura

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

 Mixed infections (Ascaris lumbricoides + Hookworms)

0 (0%)

4 (4.2%)

4 (4.2%)

 

Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia

28 (11.7%)

27 (11.3%)

55 (22.9%)

0.362

 Low

42 (47.7%)

34 (38.6%)

76 (86.4%)

 

 Moderate

3 (3.4%)

5 (5.7%)

8 (9.1%)

 

 Severe

4 (4.5%)

0 (0.0%)

4 (4.5%)

 

Co-infections

21 (8.8%)

12 (5.0%)

33 (13.8%)

0.479

 Ascaris lumbricoides + Plasmodium falciparum

15 (42.3%)

11 (36.5%)

26 (78.8%)

 

 Hookworms + Plasmodium falciparum

6 (14.3%)

1 (6.9%)

7 (21.2%)

 
  1. Low (1–10 parasites per 100 thick film fields), Moderate (11–100 parasites per 100 thick film fields), Severe (1–10 parasites per each thick film field)