Association between Inflammatory Cytokine Levels and Thrombocytopenia during Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax Infections in South-Western Coastal Region of India
Table 1
Characteristics of study participants across various infecting species.
Healthy controls
P. vivax
P. falciparum
Mixed
Overall Infected
p value
Number of study participants, n (%)
176
384(61.3)
172 (27.4)
71 (11.3)
627 (100)
<0.0001
Uncomplicated malaria (UM)
0
351 (63.4)
149 (26.9)
54 (9.7)
554 (88.4)
<0.0001
Severe malaria (SM)
0
33 (45.2)
23 (31.5)
17 (23.3)
73 (11.6)
0.6853
Gender, n (%)
Males
116
246 (61.2)
111(27.6)
45 (11.2)
402(64.1)
0.9866
Females
60
138 (61.3)
61 (27.1)
26(11.6)
225 (35.9)
0.9866
Age (in years, mean, range)
30.1 (16-58)
30.5 (16-65)
32.7 (16-65)
31.7 (16-65)
30.3 (16-65)
>0.05
Data represented as number of study participants (percentages) p values upon comparison between three infecting groups from multinomial proportion test.
