Fig. 3

Forest plot representing the pooled mean MOI of P. falciparum infection across 32 studies that reported measures of dispersion (CI and SD) for mean MOI in malaria-affected countries in SSA, sorted by region. Each blue square bar indicates the estimated mean P. falciparum MOI in one study, and the lines through the square represent the confidence interval around the estimate. The red diamond symbols represent the pooled mean P. falciparum MOI in each region, while the green diamond symbol represents the overall pooled P. falciparum mean MOI across all regions. The x-axis represents the scale for mean MOI