The risks of malaria infection in Kenya in 2009

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Summary of the Kenya PfPR survey data showing the number of survey data points and the sample size across different categories.

	Survey data points*	Spatially unique data points	Survey locations with no positive P. falciparumsamples	Persons examined
Residence
Rural	2,133	1,706	321	334,993
Urban	549	389	87	52,799
Upper age (years) sampled
≤5	449	410	161	20,570
>5 and ≤10	364	255	12	66,893
>10 and ≤20	1,596	1,209	224	247,616
>20	273	221	11	52,713
Decade
1975-1984	698	499	124	119,181
1985-1994	611	476	14	135,799
1995-2004	610	452	43	69,899
2005-2009	763	668	227	62,913
Province
Central	140	134	106	13,225
Coast	872	557	90	108,335
Eastern	233	210	78	31,186
Nairobi	15	15	2	3,105
North Eastern	56	54	30	5,437
Nyanza	729	605	23	127,383
Rift Valley	365	301	70	56,880
Western	272	219	9	42,241
Type of sample survey
Community	1,310	993	177	179,939
School	1,372	1,102	231	207,853
Method of malaria testing
Microscopy	2,107	1,549	177	353,449
Rapid diagnostic test	575	546	231	34,343
Total	2,682	2,095	408	387,792

*Data from 16 survey locations for which PfPR values were available but the number examined and number positive were not are not included in Table 1. Survey data points presented here include 2,095 spatially unique and 587 spatial duplicates but temporally unique points.

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