Research Article
Side Effects of Chloroquine and Primaquine and Symptom Reduction in Malaria Endemic Area (Mâncio Lima, Acre, Brazil)
Table 1
Epidemiological and clinical variables of the study population.
| Clinical and epidemiological characteristics (%) |
| Gender | | Male | 56% | Female | 44% | Age | | 0 to 15 years old | 26% | 16 to 40 years old | 52% | Over 40 years old | 22% | Race | | White | 12% | Brown | 78% | Black | 6% | Indigenous | 4% | Length of stay in endemic area | | 0 to 10 years old | 22% | 11 to 20 years old | 30% | 21 to 30 years old | 14% | 31 to 40 years old | 16% | More than 40 years old | 18% | Malaria in previous year | | Yes | 52% | No | 48% | Lifelong malaria episodes | | 1 to 5 | 36% | 6 to 10 | 28% | More than 10 | 36% | Parasitemia | | <200 parasites/mm3 | 66% | 200–300 parasites/mm3 | 10% | 301–500 parasites/mm3 | 12% | 501–10.000 parasites/mm3 | 12% |
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