Table 1.

Examples of inclusion criteria used to define asymptomatic individuals in transcriptomic studies.

Country, year	Criteria for identifying asymptomatic cases	Study subjects (sample size)	Follow-up protocol, duration	References
Cameroon, 2009	Positive thick blood smear and afebrile. No history of fever and antimalarial treatment in the previous 1 and 2 weeks, respectively, at the time of mass screening	Children <12 years (13)	No follow-up	(5)
Mali, 2011	PCR-detected P. falciparum and no fever. No history of antimalarial or immunosuppressive medication in the last 30 days and helminths	Individuals >13 (5)	Bi-weekly and weekly surveillance for Plasmodium infection and malaria episode, respectively	(14)
Gabon, 2005	Thin and thick blood smear and no clinical symptoms	Children 0.5–6 years (ND)	Follow up for 5 consecutive days	(6)
Uganda, 2007–2008	Blood smear and no fever	Children 4–5 years (15)	Follow up for 7 days	(16)
Mali, 2006	Not defined	5–13 years (17)	Healthy baseline before the malaria season, 7 or 14 days after treatment of their first malaria episode of the ensuing malaria season, and a subset of children followed up to the 6-month dry season	(18)