Global database of matched Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax incidence and prevalence records from 1985–2013

Measures of clinical incidence are necessary to help estimate the burden of a disease. Incidence is a metric not commonly measured in malariology because the longitudinal surveys required are costly and labour intensive. This database is an effort to collate published incidence records obtained using active case detection for Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria. The literature search methods, data abstraction procedures and data processing procedures are described here. A total of 1,680 spatio-temporally unique incidence records were collected for the database: 1,187 for P. falciparum and 493 for P. vivax. These data were gathered to model the relationship between clinical incidence and prevalence of infection and can be used for a variety of modelling exercises including the assessment of change in disease burden in relation to age and control interventions. The subset of data that have been used for such modelling exercises are described and identified.

临床发病率测算指标是评估疾病负担的必要依据。但在疟疾学研究领域，发病率这一指标却鲜有开展测算，究其原因，所需的纵向调查不仅成本高昂，且劳动强度极大。本数据库旨在整合已发表的、通过主动病例检测手段获取的恶性疟原虫（Plasmodium falciparum）与间日疟原虫（Plasmodium vivax）疟疾发病率记录。本文详述了文献检索方法、数据提取流程与数据处理流程。本数据库共收录1680条时空唯一的发病率记录：其中恶性疟原虫相关记录1187条，间日疟原虫相关记录493条。本次数据采集旨在构建临床发病率与感染率（prevalence）之间的关联模型，可广泛应用于各类建模工作，包括评估疾病负担随年龄的变化情况，以及与疾病防控干预措施相关的变化趋势。本数据库还对已用于上述建模工作的数据子集进行了详细说明与标识。