Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards malaria in a peri-urban Cameroonian village: Persistent silent transmission despite satisfactory awareness

• Steve Joko ,

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

  * E-mail: stevejoko0@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science of the University of Dschang, Vector Borne Diseases Laboratory of the Research Unit of Biology and Applied Ecology (VBID‑RUBAE), Dschang, Cameroon, Institut de Recherche de Yaoundé, Organisation de Coordination Pour La Lutte Contre Les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (IRY-OCEAC), Yaoundé, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5720-5395

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• Yacouba Poumachu,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche de Yaoundé, Organisation de Coordination Pour La Lutte Contre Les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (IRY-OCEAC), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Rehema Ouko,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health, London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Nelly Armanda Kala-Chouakeu,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science of the University of Dschang, Vector Borne Diseases Laboratory of the Research Unit of Biology and Applied Ecology (VBID‑RUBAE), Dschang, Cameroon, Institut de Recherche de Yaoundé, Organisation de Coordination Pour La Lutte Contre Les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (IRY-OCEAC), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Roland Bamou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science of the University of Dschang, Vector Borne Diseases Laboratory of the Research Unit of Biology and Applied Ecology (VBID‑RUBAE), Dschang, Cameroon, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of health, Rockville, United States of America

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• Emmanuel Elanga-Ndillé,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science of the University of Dschang, Vector Borne Diseases Laboratory of the Research Unit of Biology and Applied Ecology (VBID‑RUBAE), Dschang, Cameroon, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Parfait Awono-Ambene,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche de Yaoundé, Organisation de Coordination Pour La Lutte Contre Les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (IRY-OCEAC), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Christophe Antonio-Nkondjio,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche de Yaoundé, Organisation de Coordination Pour La Lutte Contre Les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (IRY-OCEAC), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Timoléon Tchuinkam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science of the University of Dschang, Vector Borne Diseases Laboratory of the Research Unit of Biology and Applied Ecology (VBID‑RUBAE), Dschang, Cameroon

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• Cyrille Ndo

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8742-0777

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