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Malaria and severe anemia over eight years at Gambo Rural Hospital, southern Ethiopia
- Source :
- Pathogens and Global Health, r-ISABIAL. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Maney Publishing, 2017.
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Abstract
- Evolution of incident malaria and frequency of anemia were analyzed over eight years in a rural hospital in southern Ethiopia. Capillary blood samples were tested for hemoglobin concentration, and in some instances for malaria parasites, at Gambo Rural General Hospital between January 2007 and September 2014, and the results recorded. Main demographic data were also recorded in subjects with Plasmodium sp. infections. Of a total of 54,493 blood samples taken from 45,096 different patients, 21,723 (39.9%) samples from 19,173 (42.5%) patients were tested for malaria parasites. Malaria was diagnosed in 825 (3.79%, 95% CI 3.55%, 4.06%) instances (58.3% P. vivax and 41.7% P. falciparum; one episode in 575 patients and two episodes in 125 patients). A sustained decrease in yearly incidence of malaria was observed between 2011 (6.1%) and 2014 (2.4%) (p
- Subjects :
- parasitic diseases
Plasmodium falciparum
Ethiopia
Plasmodium vivax
anemia
Malaria
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Details
- ISSN :
- 20477732
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pathogens and Global Health, r-ISABIAL. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante, instname
- Accession number :
- edsair.RECOLECTA.....09d5ece5315e1b001bee2689b63e8bdc