Improve Research Reproducibility A Bio-protocol resource
Concise Method
tooltip

Study sites

AK Abdul Qader Khan
LP Leyre Pernaute-Lau
AK Aamer Ali Khattak
SL Sanna Luijcx
BA Berit Aydin-Schmidt
MH Mubashir Hussain
TK Taj Ali Khan
FM Farees Uddin Mufti
UM Ulrika Morris
request Request a Protocol
ask Ask a question
Favorite

Seventeen government and private hospitals in the four provinces with the highest malaria burden in Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Sindh, Balochistan, and Punjab) were invited to provide blood samples during routine malaria surveillance. Ten facilities responded and were included in this study: Bannu, Kohat, Karak, Dera Ismail Khan, Frontier Region (FR) Khyber, FR Dera Ismaeel (DI) Khan, and Hangu in KPK province; Karachi in Sindh Province; Quetta in Balochistan Province; and Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab Province (Fig. 1). Symptomatic, febrile patients who visited government and/or private hospitals in these selected sites between January 2018 and February 2019 were registered in this study. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants/guardians before collecting clinical history and venous blood samples.

Map of Pakistan showing the geographical location of the 10 different sample collection sites. Pakistan is highlighted in green in the top left panel; red stars identify locations of reported Artemisinin resistance. In the enlarged map of Pakistan, red triangles indicate the 10 different sample collection sites in four provinces

Copyright and License information: The Author(s) ©2020
Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.

Do you have any questions about this protocol?

Post your question to gather feedback from the community. We will also invite the authors of this article to respond.

post Post a Question
0 Q&A