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Table 2 Association between distribution of MPF within grids (size = 2 × 2 km2) over time interval (Asembo Bay, Kenya [24], sub-counties of Uganda [33] and Afigya-Sekyere Ghana [14]) in years and over consecutive cross-sectional surveys conducted over a span of 1 year (Saponé district, Burkina Faso [26])

From: Effect of transmission intensity on hotspots and micro-epidemiology of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa

Study Site

Interval between cluster (year)

Febrile Malaria

Asymptomatic Parasitaemia

  

Correlation (95%CI)

P-value

Correlation (95%CI)

P-value

Asembo Bay

1

–0.09 (–0.26 to 0.09)

0.3072

0.23 (0.08 to 0.36)

0.003

2

0.14 (–0.04 to 0.31)

0.1245

0.16 (0.01 to 0.31)

0.0433

3

0.16 (–0.08 to 0.38)

0.1873

0.02 (–0.18 to 0.22)

0.8512

4

0.45 (0.11 to 0.70)

0.0124

0.21 (–0.12 to 0.49)

0.2041

5

0.06 (–0.32 to 0.43)

0.7726

0.45 (–0.13 to 0.80)

0.1226

Burkina Faso

Interval between clusters (surveys)

    

1

–0.07 (–0.21 to 0.08)

0.3667

0.24 (0.10 to 0.36)

<0.001

2

0.06 (–0.13 to 0.24)

0.5359

–0.09 (–0.25 to 0.08)

0.293

3

0.27 (0.01 to 0.50)

0.0457

0.34 (0.11 to 0.53)

0.0043

Uganda

Interval between clusters (years)

    

1

0.39 (0.27 to 0.50)

<0.001

–

–

2

0.29 (0.13 to 0.44)

0.001

–

–

3

0.19 (–0.06 to 0.41)

0.1332

–

–

Ghana

Interval between clusters (years)

    

1

0.26 (–0.03 to- 0.51)

0.0756

–

–

2

0.30 (–0.14 to 0.64)

0.1757

–

–