Research Article

Side Effects of Chloroquine and Primaquine and Symptom Reduction in Malaria Endemic Area (Mâncio Lima, Acre, Brazil)

Table 1

Epidemiological and clinical variables of the study population.

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics (%)

Gender
 Male56%
 Female44%
Age
 0 to 15 years old26%
 16 to 40 years old52%
 Over 40 years old22%
Race
 White12%
 Brown78%
 Black6%
 Indigenous4%
Length of stay in endemic area
 0 to 10 years old22%
 11 to 20 years old30%
 21 to 30 years old14%
 31 to 40 years old16%
 More than 40 years old18%
Malaria in previous year
 Yes52%
 No48%
Lifelong malaria episodes
 1 to 536%
 6 to 1028%
 More than 1036%
Parasitemia
 <200 parasites/mm366%
 200–300 parasites/mm310%
 301–500 parasites/mm312%
 501–10.000 parasites/mm312%