Table 2.
Study population characteristics, malaria diagnostic method and Plasmodium species reported in Mauritania since 2000
| Author(s) | Characteristics of the study population | Method of Diagnosis | Malaria positive using microscopy | Malaria positive using PCR | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Type of cases | Age (year) | Sex ratio | Total | Pf | Pv | Po | Pm | Mixed | Total | Pf | Pv | Mixed | ||
| Cortes et al. (2003) | 862 | Malaria suspected | All ages | NG | M | 183 | 153 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Mint Lekweiry et al. (2009) | 237 | Malaria suspected | All ages | 1.4 | M, P | 61 | 1 | 43 | 15 | 0 | 2 [Pv-Po] | 59 | 1 | 58 | 0 |
| Ouldabdallahi et al. (2011) | 1431 | Malaria suspected | All ages | 0.9 | M | 36 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 1040 | Asymptomatic | 6–14 | 1.1 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Mint Lekweiry et al. (2011) | 301 | Malaria suspected | 0–14 | 1.3 | R, M, P | 87 | 3 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 3 | 102 | 0 |
| Touray et al. (2012) | 371 | Asymptomatic | 1–5 | 1.1 | R, M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Ould Ahmedou Salem et al. (2015a) | 1161 | Malaria suspected | All ages | 1.1 | R, M | 631 | 408 | 213 | 2 | 4 | 4 [Pf-Pv] | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Ould Ahmedou Salem et al. (2015b) | 9141 | Malaria suspected | All ages | NG | R | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Ouldabdallahi et al. (2015) | 7368 | Malaria suspected | All ages | 0.8 | M | 672 | 218 | 412 | 34 | 5 | 3 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Ouldabdallahi et al. (2016) | 3445 | Asymptomatic | 2–9 | 1.0 | R, M | 143 | 71 | 59 | 11 | 2 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Ba et al. (2016) | 472 | Malaria positive | All ages | NG | R, P | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 472 | 296 | 163 | 13 [Pf-Pv] |
| Ba et al. (2017) | 759 | Malaria suspected | All ages | 1.1 | R, M | 200 | 127 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 14 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Gbalégba et al. (2018) | 9165 | Asymptomatic | All ages | 0.6 | R, M | 23a | 13 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Deida et al. (2019) | 453 | Malaria suspected | All ages | 1.2 | R, M, P | 154 | 4 | 140 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 162 | 4 | 120 | 38 [Pf-Pv] |
| Diallo et al. (2020) | 2326 | Malaria suspected | All ages | 0.9 | R, M, P | 1146 | 1143 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1361b | 1205 | 47 |
99 [Pf-Pv] 6 [Pf-Pm] 1 [Pf-Pv-Pm] |
| Ould Lemrabott et al. (2021) | 318 | Malaria suspected | All ages | 0.9 | R, M, P | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| El Moustapha et al. (2023) | 1760 | Malaria suspected | All ages | 0.9 | R, M, P | 256 | NG | NG | NG | NG | NG | 291 | 47 | 216 | 28 [Pf-Pv] |
Pf: Plasmodium falciparum; Pv: Plasmodium vivax; Po: Plasmodium ovale; Pm: Plasmodium malariae; NA: not applicable; NG: not given; R, rapid diagnostic test for malaria; M: microscopy; P: polymerase chain reaction
aPlasmodium spp. infections could not be identified in 7 positive cases due to the deterioration of the thin blood films
bIncluding 3 P. malariae mono-infection by PCR [3]