Malaria Prevalence and Distribution of Plasmodium Species in Southern Region of Ethiopia

Table 1

Characteristics of those included reviewed articles.

Authors	Study period	Sample size	Target population	Study design	Diagnostic methods	Positive	Prevalence	Software
[18]	April-May 2017	271	Children <5 year	Cross-sectional	Microscopy	60	22.22	SPSS
[15]	Oct-Dec 2016	160	Suspected	Cross-sectional	Mixed	80	50	SPSS
[21]	Apr-June 2013	341	Pregnant women	Cross-sectional	Mixed	31	9.09	SPSS
[22]	Oct/2008-June/2010	19,207	Suspected	Cross-sectional	Microscopy	178	0.93	SPSS, STATA
[26]	Feb/2008-Dec/2012	34,060	Suspected	Cross-sectional	Microscopy	11,523	33.83	SPSS
[27]	October-Dec/2014	350	Suspected	Cross-sectional	Microscopy	56	16	SPSS
[17]	Dec/2014-Feb/2015	422	Children 6 to 15 years	Cross-sectional	Mixed	20	4.74	SPSS
[20]	October-Dec 2019	2,167	School-aged children	Cross-sectional	RDT	35	1.62	R
[28]	Jan/2012-Dec/2019	485,414	Suspected	Retrospective	Microscopy	57,228	11.79	STATA
[10]	April-June 2009	204	Suspected	Cross-sectional	Microscopy	169	82.84	SPSS
[16]	2003-2017	583,668	Suspected	Retrospective	Microscopy	55,252	9.46	SPSS
[11]	April-May 2016	422	Pregnant women	Cross-sectional	Microscopy	34	8.05	SPSS
[12]	2015-2018	121,230	Suspected	Retrospective	Microscopy	10,379	8.56	SPSS
[24]	2008-2014	54,160	Suspected	Retrospective	Mixed	22,494	41.53	SPSS
[8]	Oct-Dec 2006	1,082	Suspected	Longitudinal	Microscopy	48	4.44	SPSS
[23]	May-June 2016	324	Suspected	Cross-sectional	Microscopy	91	28.08	SPSS
[19]	Sept 2015-Jan 2016	1,007	Febrile children	Cross-sectional	Microscopy	43	4.27	SPSS
[25]	Mar-Aug 2014	317,867	Suspected	Retrospective	Microscopy	105,755	33.27	SPSS
Total		1,622,356				263,476	19.19