Table 2 Asexual parasite prevalence across age groups by test methods: RDT, microscopy and qPCR
From: Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte burden in a Tanzanian heterogeneous transmission setting
Testing method | Children | Adolescents | Adults | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | n | % (95% CI) | n | % (95% CI) | n | % (95% CI) |
mRDT | ||||||
 Asexual | 41 | 21.4 (16.1–27.7) | 17 | 26.2 (16.9–38.1) | 19 | 9.0 (5.8–13.8) |
LM | ||||||
 Asexual | 43 | 22.4 (17.0 – 28.9) | 13 | 20.0 (12.0 – 31.5) | 17 | 8.0 (5.1–12.6) |
 Sexual | 8 | 4.2 (2.1 – 8.1) | 3 | 4.6 (1.5 – 13.4) | 6 | 2.9 (1.3–6.2) |
qPCR | ||||||
 Asexual | 52 | 27.1 (21.3 – 33.8) | 19 | 29.2 (19.5 – 41.4) | 39 | 18.6 (13.9–24.4) |
 Sexual | 13 | 6.8 (4.0 – 11.3) | 4 | 6.2 (2.3 – 15.3) | 9 | 4.3 (2.2–8.0) |