Table 1 Distribution of malaria cases by sex, distance from GGHD, altitude and Plasmodium species , southwest Ethiopia, September 2003 to August 2011
Variables | Categories | Diagnosis (species of Plasmodium ), N (%*) | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
P. falciparium | P. vivax | Mixed | |||
Distance | < 1 km | 3,250 (45.0) | 427 (18.1) | 336 (39.3) | 4,013 (38.4) |
1 to 2 km | 1,890 (26.2) | 629 (26.6) | 261 (30.5) | 2,780 (26.6) | |
2 to 3 km | 1,180 (16.3) | 473 (20.0) | 167 (19.5) | 1,820 (17.4) | |
3 to 4 km | 661 (9.2) | 395 (16.7) | 68 (8.0) | 1,124 (10.8) | |
4 to 5 km | 243 (3.4) | 228 (9.7) | 21 (2.5) | 492 (4.7) | |
> 5 km | 2 (0.03) | 210 (8.9) | 2 (0.2) | 214 (2.1) | |
Altitude | ≤ 1700 m | 18 (0.3) | 74 (3.1) | 5 (0.6) | 97 (0.9) |
1701-1800 m | 5,796 (80.2) | 1,755 (74.3) | 716 (83.7) | 8,267 (79.2) | |
1801-1900 m | 857 (11.9) | 348 (14.7) | 77 (9.0) | 1,282 (12.3) | |
1901-2000 m | 302 (4.2) | 115 (4.9) | 37 (4.3) | 454 (4.4) | |
2001-2100 m | 137 (1.9) | 35 (1.5) | 15 (1.8) | 187 (1.8) | |
>2100 m | 116 (1.6) | 35 (1.5) | 5 (0.6) | 156 (1.5) | |
Age (year) | < 5 | 651 (9.0) | 258 (10.9) | 85 (9.9) | 994 (9.5) |
5-9 | 968 (13.4) | 345 (14.6) | 114 (13.3) | 1,427 (13.7) | |
10-14 | 1,098 (15.2) | 370 (15.7) | 116 (13.6) | 1,584 (15.2) | |
15 + | 4,509 (62.4) | 1,389 (58.8) | 540 (63.2) | 6,438 (61.7) | |
Sex | Male | 4,032 (55.8) | 1,360 (57.6) | 450 (52.8) | 5,842 (56.0) |
Female | 3,194 (44.2) | 1,002 (42.4) | 404 (57.2) | 4,600 (44.1) | |
Total | 7,226 (100) | 2,362 (100) | 855 (100) | 10,443 (100) | |
69.2 | 22.6 | 8.2 | 100 | ||