Fig 1.
Study design for determination of Plasmodium carriage in Dielmo and Ndiop villages.
Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the study population.
Fig 2.
Melt curves analysis showing the qualitative detection and discrimination of the four malaria species (P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae and P. ovale) using nested real time PCR.
Table 2.
Prevalence of Plasmodium carriage based on microscopy and qPCR.
Table 3.
Details of submicroscopic Plasmodium species.
Fig 3.
Frequency of submicroscopic Plasmodium parasite carriage according to age groups.