Figure 3.

Prevalence of Plasmodium species among study participants. A: The prevalence of genus Plasmodium determined by microscopy and real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) in Ewim and Sogakope. B: The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum (Pf), Plasmodium malariae (Pm), and Plasmodium ovale (Po) determined by SYBR Green–based qPCR assays and microscopy among the combined study population. C: The proportion of Plasmodium species mono and mixed infections among study participants in the two study sites. D: The prevalence of Plasmodium species positive cases by age group (in years). The prevalence was determined by expressing the total number of positive cases as a percentage of the total sample size for each of the stratified age groups. n = 560 study participants (A); n = 178 in Ewin (A); n = 382 in Sogakope (A).