Prevalence and risk factors associated with asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infection and anemia among pregnant women at the first antenatal care visit: A hospital based cross-sectional study in Kwale County, Kenya

• Gibson Waweru Nyamu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wawerugibson2015@gmail.com

  Affiliations Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya, Department of Health, Kwale County, Kwale County, Kenya

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0991-8040

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• Jimmy Hussein Kihara,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Elvis Omondi Oyugi,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Victor Omballa,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Health Research—Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Hajara El-Busaidy,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health, Kwale County, Kwale County, Kenya

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• Victor Tunje Jeza

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya

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