Table 1.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria used for the final library
Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
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Human-infecting Plasmodium species (including mixed infections) | Animal studies |
Prospective studies | Prevention or prophylaxis studies |
Assessing efficacy of any antimalarial drug | Intermittent preventive treatment studies and intermittent screening and treatment studies in pregnancy |
Follow-up of at least 28 days | Mass drug administration |
From database inception until the date of most recent search (currently July 27, 2018) | Studies including only severe malaria |
Any language | Herbal medicine |
Reviews or pooled analyses | |
Case reports | |
Conference abstracts | |
Asymptomatic/induced malaria studies |