Table 3.

Number of malarial infections diagnosed by rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and conventional microscopy, according to the presence of malaria-related symptoms, during five consecutive cross-sectional surveys in the Mâncio Lima, cohort (2018–2020)

Symptoms	Species	Study visit
		1		2		3		4		5
		RDT	Microscopy	RDT	Microscopy	RDT	Microscopy	RDT	Microscopy	RDT	Microscopy
Yes	P. falciparum	–	3	4	0	0	3	1	1	0	0
	P. vivax	–	2	4	8	2	4	0	0	0	2
	Mixed	–	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	No. tested	–	218	307	308	182	182	205	205	137	137
No	P. falciparum	–	5	4	3	3	3	3	1	0	1
	P. vivax	–	12	5	5	2	5	3	3	0	1
	Mixed	–	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
	No. tested	–	864	1389	1388	1396	1396	1563	1563	1540	1540
Total	P. falciparum	–	8	8	3	3	6	4	2	0	1
	P. vivax	–	14	9	13	4	9	3	3	0	3
	Mixed	–	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0
	No. tested	–	1082	1696	1696	1578	1578	1768	1768	1677	1677
Prevalence (%)	P. falciparum	–	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0
	P. vivax	–	1.0	0.4	0.6	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1
	Mixed	–	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Dates of study visits: 1, April–May 2018; 2, September–October 2018; 3, May–June 2019; 4, September–October 2019; and 5, October–November 2020. Symptoms (at least one present within the past 2 weeks): fever, chills, sweating, headache, nausea, vomiting, myalgia and arthralgia.