Utility of passive malaria surveillance in hospitals as a surrogate to community infection transmission dynamics in western Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria continued to be the major public health concern in sub-Sahara Africa, thus for better planning of control activities, periodic surveillance of both clinical and asymptomatic cases remains important. However, the usability of routinely collected malaria data in Kenyan hospitals as a predictor of the asymptomatic malaria infection in the community amidst rapid infection resurgence or reduction in different areas of disease endemicities remains widely unstudied. This study was therefore aimed to evaluate the utility of passive surveillance of malaria in health facilities as a proxy of infection transmission of the surrounding community in different transmission intensities.

Methods

Prospective multiple cross-sectional surveys were done in three villages in we

SUBMITTER: Kapesa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6060476 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature