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Similar Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum and Non-P. falciparum Malaria Infections among Schoolchildren, Tanzania
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Sendor, R., Mitchell, C. L., Chacky, F., Mohamed, A., Mhamilawa, L. E., Molteni, F., Nyinondi, S., Kabula, B., Mkali, H., Reaves, E. J., Serbantez, N., Kitojo, C., Makene, T., Kyaw, T., Muller, M., Mwanza, A., Eckert, E. L., Parr, J. B., Lin, J. T., ... Ngasala, B. (2023). Similar Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum and Non-P. falciparum Malaria Infections among Schoolchildren, Tanzania
1.Emerging Infectious Diseases, 29(6), 1143-1153. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2906.221016
Achieving malaria elimination requires considering both Plasmodium falciparum and non-P. falciparum infections. We determined prevalence and geographic distribution of 4 Plasmodium spp. by performing PCR on dried blood spots collected within 8 regions of Tan-zania during 2017. Among 3,456 schoolchildren, 22% had P. falciparum, 24% had P. ovale spp., 4% had P. malariae, and 0.3% had P. vivax infections. Most (91%) schoolchildren with P. ovale infections had low parasite densities; 64% of P. ovale infections were single -spe-cies infections, and 35% of those were detected in low malaria endemic regions. P. malariae infections were predominantly (73%) co-infections with P. falciparum. P. vivax was detected mostly in northern and east-ern regions. Co-infections with >1 non-P. falciparum species occurred in 43% of P. falciparum infections. A high prevalence of P. ovale infections exists among schoolchildren in Tanzania, underscoring the need for detection and treatment strategies that target non-P. falciparum species.
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