The relationship between facility-based malaria test positivity rate and community-based parasite prevalence

Alice Kamau; Grace Mtanje; Christine Mataza; Lucas Malla; Philip Bejon; Robert W. Snow

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0240058

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The relationship between facility-based malaria test positivity rate and community-based parasite prevalence

Alice Kamau ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: akamau@kemri-wellcome.org

Affiliations KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9846-5372

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Grace Mtanje,

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya
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Christine Mataza,

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Ministry of Health, Kilifi County Government, Kilifi, Kenya
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Lucas Malla,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya
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Philip Bejon,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Robert W. Snow

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3725-6088

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The relationship between facility-based malaria test positivity rate and community-based parasite prevalence

Alice Kamau,
Grace Mtanje,
Christine Mataza,
Lucas Malla,
Philip Bejon,
Robert W. Snow

Published: October 7, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240058

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