ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2021
The Burden of Malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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- Malaria-associated risk factors among adolescents living in areas with persistent transmission in Senegal: a case-control study.Malaria journal · 2022Article
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- Household Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, and Plasmodium ovale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2013-2014.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
Despite evidence that older children and adolescents bear the highest burden of malaria, large malaria surveys focus on younger children. We used polymerase chain reaction data from the 2013-2014 Demographic and Health Survey in the Democratic Republic of Congo (including children aged <5 years and adults aged ≥15 years) and a longitudinal study in Kinshasa Province (participants aged 6 months to 98 years) to estimate malaria prevalence across age strata. We fit linear models and estimated prevalences for each age category; adolescents aged 10-14 years had the highest prevalence. We estimate approximately 26 million polymerase chain reaction-detectable infections nationally. Adolescents and older children should be included in surveillance studies.
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