A Cross-Sectional Population Study of Geographic, Age-Specific, and Household Risk Factors for Asymptomatic <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> Malaria Infection in Western Kenya.

ABSTRACT: The burden of Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria in Kenya is decreasing; however, it is still one of the top 10 causes of morbidity, particularly in regions of western Kenya. Between April 2015 and June 2016, we enrolled 965 apparently healthy children aged 0-15 years in former Nyanza and Western Provinces in Kenya to characterize the demographic, geographic, and household risk factors of asymptomatic malaria as part of an epidemiologic study to investigate the risk factors for endemic Burkitt lymphoma. The children were sampled using a stratified, multistage cluster sampling survey design. Malaria was assessed by rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and thick-film microscopy (TFM). Primary analyses of Pf malaria prevalence (pfPR) are based on RDT. Associations between weighted

SUBMITTER: Peprah S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6335891 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature