Table 4 Measured clinical morbidity by infection category
Infection category status | n | Prevalence of the different types of clinical morbidity | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fever % (n) | Anaemia % (n) | Malnutrition % (n) | Haematuria % (n) | Leucopenia % (n) | Thrombocytopenia % (n) | Microcytosis % (n) | Hypochromasia % (n) | ||
All | 638 | 21.2 (135) | 74.3 (474) | 26.5 (169) | 13.0 (83) | 1.9 (12) | 10.8 (69) | 45.3 (289) | 1.6 (10) |
Schistosoma haematobium only | 99 | 20.2 (20) | 80.8 (80) | 27.3 (27) | 46.5 (46) | 4.0 (4) | 9.1 (9) | 41.4 (41) | 3.0 (3) |
MP Only | 98 | 14.3 (14) | 79.6 (78) | 16.3 (16) | 1.0 (1) | 2.0 (2) | 9.2 (9) | 45.9 (45) | 1.0 (1) |
STH Only | 16 | 25.0 (4) | 68.8 (11) | 37.5 (6) | 0.0 (0) | 0.0 (0) | 6.3 (1) | 43.8 (7) | 0.0 (0) |
Schistosoma + MP | 50 | 36.0 (18) | 82.0 (41) | 22.0 (11) | 54.0 (27) | 6.0 (3) | 24.0 (12) | 50.0 (25) | 2.0 (1) |
Schistosoma + STH | 5 | 20.0 (1) | 40.0 (2) | 20.0 (1) | 80.0 (4) | 0.0 (0) | 0.0 (0) | 0.0 (0) | 0.0 (0) |
Schistosoma + MP + STH | 6 | 0.0 (0) | 100 (6) | 50.0 (3) | 83.3 (5) | 0.0 (0) | 0 0 (0) | 50.0 (3) | 0.0 (0) |
Schistosoma/MP/STH | 66 | 28.7 (19) | 80.3 (53) | 25.8 (17) | 54.5 (36) | 4.5 (3) | 19.7 (13) | 48.5 (32) | 1.5 (1) |
Negative | 359 | 21.7 (78) | 70.2 (252) | 28.7 (103) | 0.0 (0) | 0.8 (3) | 10.3 (37) | 45.7 (164) | 1.4 (5) |