Relationship between Antibody Levels, IgG Binding to Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes, and Disease Outcome in Hospitalized Urban Malaria Patients from Dakar, Sénégal
Table 1
Epidemiological and hematoparasitological characteristics of the study population.
Parameters
Cerebral malaria () Mean ± SE [min–max]
Mild malaria () Mean ± SE [min–max]
p
Gender (male/female)
39/30
43/29
—
Age (year)
17.9 ± 1.8 [2–63]
17.3 ± 1.2 [5–55]
ns
Age groups (adults/children)
39/30
35/37
—
Parasitemia (Tr/L)
30150 ± 5510 [175–452100]
28348 ± 3755 [220–141000]
ns
Haemoglobin (g/dL)
8.4 ± 0.33 [3.3–15.1]
11.5 ± 0.51 [8.3–16.1]
0.031
Red blood cells count (106/µL)
3.14 ± 0.13 [1.18–4.98]
4.72 ± 0.18 [2.90–7.71]
0.040
White blood cells count (103/µL)
12.84 ± 1.15 [4.90–51.10]
8.21 ± 1.01 [4.5–13.3]
0.012
Platelet count (103/µL)
143.4 ± 16.2 [11–533]
168.2 ± 11.8 [28–355]
ns
Hematocrit (%)
31.1 ± 0.22 [10.5–46.1]
35.9 ± 0.18 [23.9–49.1]
ns
SE = standard error, Min = minimum, Max = maximum, ns = nonsignificant, and = number of patients. Data were determined by the hospital’s medical laboratory. Adults were patients ≥15 years and children were patients 15 years. = value of comparison between CM and MM groups with Mann-Whitney rank test.
