Selective Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Vivax Malaria: Reduction of Malaria Incidence in an Open Cohort Study in Brazilian Amazon

Table 5

Statistical analysis of malaria incidence in the communities, before and after SIPT application.

Community		Period	P. vivax incidence
			𝑛	Mean	SE	𝑃
Vila Amazonas	Before	Jun/07 to May/09	145	6.042	1.015	0.0144
	After	Jun/09 to May/11	65	2.708	1.079
Cachoeira do Teotônio	Before	Aug/08 to Jul/10	292	12.170	1.528	0.0010
	After	Aug/10 to Jul/12	130	5.417	0.849
São Sebastião	Before	Jun/07 to May/09	145	6.042	0.663	0.1824
	After	Jun/09 to May/11	118	4.917	0.542
	Before	Ago/08 to Jul/10	145	6.042	0.674	0.1248
	After	Aug/10 to Jul/12	120	5.000	0.819

Before: before SIPT application. After: after SIPT application. SE (standard error) and mean: Mann-Whitney test. 𝑃: 𝑃 value. Wilcoxon rank test for pared data analysis. São Sebastião is a control community. No SIPT was applied.