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Phenotypic Analysis of Rodent Malaria Parasite Asexual and Sexual Blood Stages and Mosquito Stages
Published on: May 30, 2019
Malaria prevalence in north-eastern Nigeria: a cross-sectional study
C H Houben1, H Fleischmann, M Gückel
1Diagnostic Center MMM group & Specialist Hospital Yola, Hospital Road, P.M.B. 2266, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Objective:
To assess the prevalence of malaria parasitemia in north-east Nigeria and to evaluate the measures for the prevention of malaria.
Methods:
A village in north-eastern Nigeria was selected for the cross sectional study at the height of the rainy season in October 2011. A total of 550 inhabitants of a hamlet were recruited for this study. After obtaining the consent individuals received a structured interview and were tested for malaria parasites in their blood films. Recruits testing positive for malaria were given a course of artemesinin-based combination therapy (ACT).
Results:
A total of 497 inhabitants representing approximately 90 percent of the population participated: a quarter of the study group carried malaria parasitesexclusively Plasmodium falciparum(P. falciparum)-representing a P. falciparum parasite rate (PfPR) of 24.5%. Besides, 53/138 in the age group of 2 to < 10 years old children tested positive for P. falciparum representing a PfPR2-10 value of 38.4%. Malaria control measures were used in just under a third (157/497) of this cohort. Despite these measures 28/157 (17.8%) still tested positive for P. falciparum.
Conclusions:
The malaria burden is overestimated for this region in north-east Nigeria. The findings support an intermediate pattern of malaria endemicity. The 30% bed nets coverage for malaria control is well below the WHO estimates for 2011.
