Fig 1.
Geographic location of the communities studied in the Guna Yala Comarca Panama.
Fig 2.
Epidemiological behavior of malaria cases registered in the Guna Yala Comarca, Panama.
1990–2022. Source MINSA, Panama.
Fig 3.
Malaria cases registered in the communities of Irgandi, Ukupa, and Aidirgandi, Guna Yala Comarca, Panama.
2012–2021. Source: MINSA, Panama.
Table 1.
Number of blood samples taken by age group and sex for the diagnosis of asymptomatic malaria by LM and RT-MqPCR in the community of Irgandi, Guna Yala Comarca, Panama.
Table 2.
Number of blood samples taken by age group and sex for the diagnosis of asymptomatic malaria by LM and RT-MqPCR in the community of Ukupa, Guna Yala Comarca, Panama.
Table 3.
Number of blood samples taken by age group and sex for the diagnosis of asymptomatic malaria by LM and RT-MqPCR in the community of Aidirgandi, Guna Yala Comarca, Panama.
Table 4.
Parasite densities (parasites/μL) observed in asymptomatic P. vivax cases diagnosed by optical microscopy in the Guna Yala Comarca, Panama.
Table 5.
Diagnosis by LM and RT-MqPCR of asymptomatic people with P. vivax in the Guna Yala Comarca in Panama during 2016.