Table 1 Infectiousness of submicroscopic parasite carriers versus slide-positive carriers.

From: Factors determining the occurrence of submicroscopic malaria infections and their relevance for control

Study

Country

N people

N mosquitoes

% Mosquitoes infected, slide-positives

% Mosquitoes infected, submicroscopic infections

Ouedraogo 2011 (ALO, unpublished data)

Burkina Faso

260

10,244

12.8

3.2

Jeffery and Eyles29

USA

95

10,096

20.3

2.0

Coleman et al.30

Thailand

237

9,210

0.4

0.2*

Young et al.7

USA

124

6,600

8.4

0.5*

  1. Proportion of mosquitoes infected during human-to-mosquito transmission studies. In two of these studies, the prevalence of submicroscopic carriage among microscopy-negatives was not assessed and therefore this was estimated using the relationship in Fig. 1a.
  2. *Prevalence of submicroscopic carriers estimated.
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