Measures of prevalence by PCR and Microscopy, broken down by age

Age-dissagregated data on Plasmodium falciparum prevalence by microscopy vs. by PCR. Taken from the systematic review by Whittaker et al. (Lancet Microbe, 2021), downloaded from the associated GitHub repository. See ?PCR_micro_full_whittaker2021 for more information about this and related datasets.

data(PCR_micro_age_whittaker2021)

Format

A data frame of 164 rows and 21 columns. Columns are identical to the PCR_micro_full_whittaker2021 dataset, with the addition of two columns giving the raw and processed age groups corresponding to each prevalence estimate.

Source

Systematic Review Results

References

Charles Whittaker, Hannah Slater, Rebecca Nash, Teun Bousema, Chris Drakeley, Azra C. Ghani, and Lucy C. Okell. Global patterns of submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection: insights from a systematic review and meta-analysis of population surveys. Lancet Microbe (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00055-0 (ScienceDirect)