Stresman Gillian H, Stevenson Jennifer C, Ngwu Nnenna, Marube Elizabeth, Owaga Chrispin, Drakeley Chris, Bousema Teun, Cox Jonathan
Department of Immunology and Infection, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Global Health Research, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya; Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Department of Immunology and Infection, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Global Health Research, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya; Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Dec;91(6):1101-8. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0355. Epub 2014 Oct 20.
In endemic settings, health facility surveys provide a convenient approach to estimating malaria transmission intensity. Typically, testing for malaria at facilities is performed on symptomatic attendees, but asymptomatic infections comprise a considerable proportion of the parasite reservoir. We sampled individuals attending five health facilities in the western Kenyan highlands. Malaria prevalence by rapid diagnostic test (RDT) was 8.6-32.9% in the health facilities. Of all polymerase chain reaction-positive participants, 46.4% (95% confidence interval [95% CI] = 42.6-50.2%) of participants had infections that were RDT-negative and asymptomatic, and 55.9% of those infections consisted of multiple parasite clones as assessed by merozoite surface protein-2 genotyping. Subpatent infections were more common in individuals reporting the use of non-artemisinin-based antimalarials in the 2 weeks preceding the survey (odds ratio = 2.49, 95% CI = 1.04-5.92) compared with individuals not reporting previous use of antimalarials. We observed a large and genetically complex pool of subpatent parasitemia in the Kenya highlands that must be considered in malaria interventions.
在疟疾流行地区,医疗机构调查为估算疟疾传播强度提供了一种便捷方法。通常,医疗机构对有症状就诊者进行疟疾检测,但无症状感染在寄生虫储存库中占相当大的比例。我们对肯尼亚西部高地五家医疗机构的就诊者进行了抽样。医疗机构中快速诊断检测(RDT)的疟疾患病率为8.6%-32.9%。在所有聚合酶链反应阳性参与者中,46.4%(95%置信区间[95%CI]=42.6%-50.2%)的参与者感染为RDT阴性且无症状,根据裂殖子表面蛋白-2基因分型评估,其中55.9%的感染由多个寄生虫克隆组成。与未报告先前使用抗疟药的个体相比,在调查前2周内报告使用非青蒿素类抗疟药的个体中,亚临床感染更为常见(优势比=2.49,95%CI=1.04-5.92)。我们在肯尼亚高地观察到大量基因复杂的亚临床寄生虫血症群体,在疟疾干预措施中必须予以考虑。