Parasitological Indices of Malaria Transmission in Children under Fifteen Years in Two Ecoepidemiological Zones in Southwestern Burkina Faso

Table 1

Study participant’s characteristics.

Characteristic	Rice site	Savanna site	value
Sex
Male	242 (43.6)	246 (43.5)	>0.05
Female	313 (56.4)	320 (56.5)	>0.05
Age
Mean SD			0.06
Range	1–14.8	0.8–14.9
Age group
<1 year	36	31	>0.05
1–<5 years	116	183
5–<10 years	249	226
10–<15 years	154	126
2–9 years	285	329
Temperature ()
Mean SD			0.0786
Range	34.5–37.60	35–39.20
Plasmodic index
Mean SD	40.85 ± 18.07		0.0931
Range	17.18–61	45.45–80.72
2–9 years	53.48%	55.6%
GMPD
Mean SD			0.93
Range	2335–3000	2414–2912

SD: standard deviation. GMPD: geometric mean parasite density and numbers in brackets represent percentages. There were no significant differences between participant’s characteristics of two study sites.