Intestinal Parasites Coinfection Does Not Alter Plasma Cytokines Profile Elicited in Acute Malaria in Subjects from Endemic Area of Brazil

Table 2

Epidemiological and hematological data in the studied groups.

	Infection groups
	Malaria	Coinfected	Intestinal parasites^a	Uninfected^b
	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)
Gender (%)
M	11 (69)	34 (71)	49 (50)	48 (47)
F	5 (31)	14 (29)	49 (50)	54 (53)
Age	24 (21–33)	31 (22–41)	30 (14–43)	29 (14–38)
TR	22 (16–27)	23 (18–32)	23 (14–34)	24 (13–31)
TRO	21 (10–24)	22 (15–27)	18 (11–30)	24 (13–30)
LME	6 (0–66)	3 (0–16)	24 (6–60)	10 (1–36)
PME	5 (2–8	4 (1–10	4 (2–60	5 (2–14)
Hematological
Lymphocytes (mm^3)	1316 (863–1982	1170 (789–1826	2178 (1813–2725)	2068 (1697–2467)
Platelets (mm^3)	166 (148–204	152 (106–197	214 (173–245	233 (193–286)
Band cells (mm^3)	34 (0–141	26 (0–143	0 (0-0)	0 (0-0)
Eosinophils (mm^3)	73 (36.75–138.75	104 (42.5–328.5	328 (185–720	245 (146.75–484.00)
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	12.7 (12–14	13.2 (12.2–14	13.8 (12.8–15)	13.8 (13–14.7)
Parasitemia (parasites/L)	2740 (738–5591)	1816 (641–5700)	—	—

(%): number of samples (percentage); TR: Years of residence in endemic area; TRO: Years of residence in Rondonia; LME: Months since last malaria episode and PME: number of past malaria episodes. The variables Age, TR, TRO, LME and PME, values are expressed as Median (25%–75%). Differences were calculated using a TukeyHSD from a permutation based ANOVA. Differences of parasitemia between Coinfected and Malaria group were calculated using a permutation test. ^adifferences between indicated group and Intestinal parasites; ^bdifferences between indicated group and Uninfected. Statistical differences of epidemiological parameters were expressed as , , .