Table 1 Demographic and parasitological characteristics of study participants
| Â | Chulaimbo | Â | Homa Bay | Â | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
dry N = 262 | wet N = 419 |  | dry N = 854 | wet N = 1324 |  | |
Demographic data | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | |
 Age group in years | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) |  | |
  < 5 | 45 (17.2) | 62 (14.8) | 158 (18.5) | 227 (17.1) |  | |
 5–15 | 75 (28.6) | 173 (41.3) | 154 (18.0) | 419 (31.6) |  | |
  > 15 | 142 (54.2) | 184 (43.9) | 542 (63.5) | 678 (51.2) |  | |
 Female (%) | 155 (59.2) | 234 (55.8) | 578 (67.7) | 840 (63.4) |  | |
Parasitological data | Â | Â | P value | Â | Â | P value |
 Parasite prevalence | 71/262 (27.1%) | 202/419 (48.2%) | < 0.0001* | 80/854 (9.4%) | 103/1324 (7.8%) | 0.1921 |
 Geometric mean parasite density | 7.79 [3.07–19.7] | 11.7 [6.80–20.2] | 0.8433 | 6.87 [3.53–13.4] | 5.31 [2.88–9.81] | 0.9638 |
 Proportion subpatent infections (< 100 parasites/μL) | 48/71 (67.6%) | 135/202 (66.8%) | 0.9050 | 63/80 (78.8%) | 83/103 (80.6%) | 0.7595 |
 Population gametocyte prevalence | 27/262 (10.3%) | 50/419 (11.9%) | 0.5140 | 24/854 (2.8%) | 18/1324 (1.4%) | 0.0162* |
 Proportion gametocyte positive infections | 27/71 (38.0%) | 50/202 (24.8%) | 0.0325* | 24/80 (30.0%) | 18/103 (17.5%) | 0.0457* |
 Geometric mean pfs25 density | 1.37 [0.79–2.36] | 4.74 [2.36–9.55] | 0.0181* | 0.77 [0.54–1.10] | 1.42 [0.76–2.65] | 0.0638 |