Case Definitions of Clinical Malaria in Children from Three Health Districts in the North Region of Cameroon

Table 1

Malaria indicators in children from the Northern region of Cameroon.

	Health districts
Characteristics of malaria infection	Garoua (n=2,666)	Pitoa (n=2,026)	Mayo Oulo (n=1,503)	Total (n=6,195)
Malaria infection prevalence (%)	26.23	47.83	17.53	31.15
Gametocyte rate (%)	12.16	7.3	11.65	9.67
Prevalence of fever (%)	18.3	22.7	15.3	19
Fever + Plasmodium infection rate (%)	33.2	54.68	30	40.95
Asymptomatic infection rate (%)	24.61	45.6	15.48	28.9
Plasmodium species
P. falciparum (P.f) (%)	93.21	89.2	91.61	91.62
P. malariae (P.m) (%)	2.55	2.78	2.37	2.37
P.f+P.m (%)	4.24	7.92	3.38	5.96
P.f+P.o (%)	0	0.1	0	0.05

n: study population.