Utility of passive malaria surveillance in hospitals as a surrogate to community infection transmission dynamics in western Kenya

• Main Authors: Anthony Kapesa (Author), Eliningaya J. Kweka (Author), Guofa Zhou (Author), Harrysone Etemesi Atieli (Author), Erasmus Kamugisha (Author), Humphrey D. Mazigo (Author), Sospatro E. Ngallaba (Author), Andrew K. Githeko (Author), Guiyun Yan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Malaria continued to be the major public health concern in sub-Sahara Africa, thus for better planning of control activities, periodic surveillance of both clinical and asymptomatic cases remains important. However, the usability of routinely collected malaria data in Kenyan hosp...