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Table 1 Distribution of the study population with respect to age, gender and study site

From: Epidemiological and clinical profile of paediatric malaria: a cross sectional study performed on febrile children in five epidemiological strata of malaria in Cameroon

Epidemiological strata

Study sites

Age (months)

Total

< 60

60–119

120+

HWP

Bamenda

Gender

F

70 (40.5)

29 (16.8)

74 (42.8)

173 (54.4)

M

58 (40.0)

38 (26.2)

49 (33.8)

145 (45.6)

Total

128 (40.3)

67 (21.1)

123 (38.7)

318

C

Limbe

Gender

F

75 (50.3)

39 (26.2)

35 (23.5)

149 (46.9)

M

103 (61.0)

39 (23.1)

27 (15.9)

169 (53.1)

Total

178 (56.0)

78 (24.5)

62 (19.5)

318

SCEF

Yaounde

Gender

F

61 (40.7)

32 (21.3)

57 (38.0)

150 (44.0)

M

100 (52.4)

46 (24.1)

45 (23.6)

191 (56.0)

Total

161 (47.2)

78 (22.9)

102 (29.9)

341

SS

Maroua

Gender

F

122 (74.4)

27 (16.5)

15 (9.1)

164 (52.1)

M

111 (73.5)

27 (17.9)

13 (8.6)

151 (47.9)

Total

233 (74.0)

54 (17.1)

28 (8.9)

315

HIP

Ngaoundere

Gender

F

94 (65.7)

32 (22.4)

17 (11.9)

143 (45.1)

M

116 (66.7)

34 (19.5)

24 (13.8)

174 (54.9)

Total

210 (66.3)

66 (20.8)

41 (12.9)

317

Total

Gender

F

422 (54.2)

159 (20.4)

198 (25.4)

779 (48.4)

M

488 (58.8)

184 (22.2)

158 (19.0)

830 (51.6)

Total

910 (56.6)

343 (21.3)

356 (22.1)

1609

  1. HWP High western plateau strata, C Coastal strata, SCEF South Cameroonian Equatorial strata, SS Sudano-sahelian strata, HIP High inland plateau strata, F female, M male
  2. Data are presented as number (%)