ArticleJournal of tropical medicine2018
Low Frequency of Asymptomatic and Submicroscopic Plasmodial Infections in Urabá Region in Colombia.
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- Prevalence and risk factors of asymptomatic Plasmodium spp. infection in the military population of the Colombian National Army.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Asymptomatic/submicroscopicParasite epidemiology and control · 2025Article
- Dry-season transmission and determinants of Plasmodium infections in Jawi district, northwest Ethiopia.Malaria journal · 2022Article
- An Optimized Real-Time qPCR Method for the Effective Detection of Human Malaria Infections.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Dynamics of the Composition ofJournal of tropical medicine · 2021Article
- Microscopic and submicroscopic Plasmodium infections in indigenous and non-indigenous communities in Colombia.Malaria journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundA screening for malaria parasites was conducted with asymptomatic residents in Colombia.
methodsA descriptive study was carried out in December 2012 in four municipalities of Urabá region in Colombia. A convenience sample of 400 subjects was selected. Participants responded to a survey regarding epidemiological data and blood samples were taken from capillary blood obtained by finger prick for thick smear, rapid diagnostic test (RDT), and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
results399 subjects aged 0.2-98 years were studied (median 22; 221 female (55%)). Episodes of malaria in the last year confirmed by thick film were reported by 47 participants (12%). In 399 samples tested by RDT 4 (1%) were positive (1 with
conclusionPlasmodial afebrile infection was found in 2% of the studied population, by three diagnostic methods, in residents from a low endemic malaria region in Colombia.
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