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Authors
Gbalégba, Constant G. N. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3217-3398
Ba, Hampâté
Silué, Kigbafori D.
Ba, Ousmane
Tia, Emmanuel
Chouaibou, Mouhamadou
Tian-Bi, Nathan T. Y.
Yapi, Grégoire Y.
Koné, Brama
Utzinger, Jürg
Koudou, Benjamin G.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), (grant nº NB20283)
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Article History
Received: 17 September 2017
Accepted: 24 March 2018
First Online: 25 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: In Côte d’Ivoire, the National Ethics Committee cleared the research protocol (reference n° 10 056/MSHP/CNER-dkn, dated 29 May 2013). In Mauritania, the scientific committee of the Faculty of Medicine (University of Nouakchott), acting as a national ethic committee, cleared the research protocol (reference n° 042/USTM/FM, dated 23 May 2013). In addition, local authorities in the study sites were informed about the objectives, procedures and benefits of the study. Household heads or their representatives were asked to register and to give written informed consent prior to participation. However, if the participant was illiterate, his/her thumb print with the signature of a witness was obtained. All participants diagnosed malaria positive by any of the diagnostic tools were treated with anti-malarial drugs according to national malaria programme guidelines. Information obtained from each study participant was kept confidential.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
