A prospective cohort study of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in three sites of Western Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria in western Kenya is currently characterized by sustained high Plasmodial transmission and infection resurgence, despite positive responses in some areas following intensified malaria control interventions since 2006. This study aimed to evaluate long-term changes in malaria transmission profiles and to assess patterns of asymptomatic malaria infections in school children aged 5-15 years at three sites in western Kenya with heterogeneous malaria transmission and simultaneous malaria control interventions.

Methods

The study was conducted from 2018 to 2019 and is based on data taken every third year from 2005 to 2014 during a longitudinal parasitological and mosquito adult surveillance and malaria control programme that was initiated in 2002 in the villages o

SUBMITTER: Ondeto BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9647947 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature