
This is a replication dataset supporting the research and the results that are presented in 'John Muthii Muriuki, Alexander J Mentzer, Wandia Kimita, Francis M Ndungu, Alex W Macharia, Emily L Webb, Swaib A Lule, Alireza Morovat, Adrian V S Hill, Philip Bejon, Alison M Elliott, Thomas N Williams, Sarah H Atkinson, Iron Status and Associated Malaria Risk Among African Children, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 68, Issue 11, 1 June 2019, Pages 1807–1814, doi.org
The study assayed iron and inflammatory biomarkers from community-based cohorts of 1309 Kenyan and 1374 Ugandan children aged 0–7 years and conducted prospective surveillance for episodes of malaria. We present data from the Kenya-based cohort. The dataset contains information on participant demographics, malaria parasitemia, sickle genotypes, iron biomarkers and clinical variables.