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SUBMITTER: Stresman GH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4257630 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stresman Gillian H GH Stevenson Jennifer C JC Ngwu Nnenna N Marube Elizabeth E Owaga Chrispin C Drakeley Chris C Bousema Teun T Cox Jonathan J
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20141020 6
In endemic settings, health facility surveys provide a convenient approach to estimating malaria transmission intensity. Typically, testing for malaria at facilities is performed on symptomatic attendees, but asymptomatic infections comprise a considerable proportion of the parasite reservoir. We sampled individuals attending five health facilities in the western Kenyan highlands. Malaria prevalence by rapid diagnostic test (RDT) was 8.6-32.9% in the health facilities. Of all polymerase chain re ...[more]