Figure 5.
Risk of acquiring new infections in relations to age and increasing density cut-offs. Values are adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals. ● = Plasmodium falciparum (Pf); ○ = P. vivax (Pv). Because of low number of infections, no age effect for Pv parasitemias > 1,000/mL was estimated. LDR-FMA = positive by post–polymerase chain reaction ligation detection reaction–fluorescent microsphere assay; LM = positive by light microscopy. Shown are species-specific density cut-offs: higher cut-offs for Pf are set at species-specific pyrogenic thresholds and lower cut-offs set at approximately 1.5 times the geometric mean density observed at baseline.