Although asymptomatic carriage of human malaria species has been widely reported, the extent of asymptomatic, submicroscopic parasitemia for Plasmodium knowlesi is unknown. This study sampled individuals residing in households or villages of symptomatic malaria cases with the aim of detecting submicroscopic P. knowlesi in this population. Four published molecular assays were used to confirm the presence of P. knowlesi. Using latent class analysis the estimated proportion of asymptomatic individuals was 6.9% (5.6 -8.4%). This study confirms the presence of a substantial number of asymptomatic mono-infections across all age groups; further work is needed to estimate prevalence in the wider community.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 July 2020.
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