Plasmodium spp. mixed infection leading to severe malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Mixed Plasmodium malaria infections can lead to severe malaria. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to explore the prevalence of severe mixed Plasmodium malaria infection and to compare it with the prevalence of severe P. falciparum malaria mono-infection across the included studies. Original English-language research articles from PubMed, Scopus, and ISI Web of Science were identified and screened. Articles reporting the number of mixed infections and the number of severe mixed infections were used to determine the main outcome of this study, while the number of P. falciparum infections and the number of severe P. falciparum infections were used to determine the secondary outcome of this study. For the main outcome, the pooled prevalence and 95% confidence interval (CI) of seve

SUBMITTER: Kotepui M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7338391 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature