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Table 2 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients and their corresponding p-value of the inspected parameters against the total parasitemia percentage of P. vivax samples

From: The utility of basic blood counts, WBC histogram and C-reactive protein in detecting malaria

 

%Parasitemia

rs

p-value

WBC

0.285

 < 0.001

RBC

− 0.128

0.068

Hgb

− 0.141

0.045

Hct

− 0.130

0.064

MCV

− 0.026

0.705

MCH

− 0.037

0.598

MCHC

− 0.037

0.594

RDW

0.138

0.049

PLT

− 0.303

 < 0.001

MPV

0.078

0.265

PCT

− 0.283

 < 0.001

PDW

0.179

0.010

%LYM

0.143

0.042

%MON

− 0.338

 < 0.001

%GRA

− 0.057

0.416

CRP

0.325

 < 0.001

  1. 10 samples from the original data set were incomplete on parasites counting, therefore they were not contemplated for the calculation of Table 2 results
  2. p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant
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BMC Infectious Diseases

ISSN: 1471-2334

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