A retrospective and descriptive study of cases of malaria confirmed and treated by the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit (age lower than 15 years) at the La Fe Hospital, Valencia, over the period 1993–2015. Results A total of 54 cases of paediatric malaria were diagnosed in the period 1993...
However, there is substantial national and subnational heterogeneity in CCM programmes. Successful programmes have increased appropriate treatment-seeking for fever and malaria case management for children under 5 years of age, in some cases, exceeding appropriate malaria treatment rates at public health ...
ovale) have been prevalent in history, and P. malariae was relatively rare compared to P. falciparum and P. vivax, and diffusely distributed in southern China [15]. Since 2010, several recurrent cases have been reported for many years [16,17,18,19,20], and there was a small outbreak ...
"Confirmed Malaria Cases among Children under Five with Fever and History of Fever in Rural Western Tanzania." BMC Research Notes 4 (1): 359.Mazigo, H. D., Meza, W., Ambrose, E. E., Kidenya, B. R., & Kweka, E. J. (2011). Confirmed malaria cases among children under five ...
populations. The optimum cut-off parasite densities through the determination of the sensitivity and specificity showed that in children less than five years of age, 500 parasites per μl of blood could be used to define the malaria attributable fever cases for this age group. In children between...
Avoid travel in some cases.Try to avoid travel to areas with malaria if you're pregnant. Malaria can cause pregnancy problems such as miscarriage and early delivery. If you have to go on the trip, take preventive medicine and avoidmosquito bites. ...
According to World Malaria Report, globally 219 malaria cases and 435,000 malaria deaths occurred in 2017 with 61% of the deaths in children less than 5 years old (WHO, 2018). However, malaria incidence and malaria deaths reduced by 41% and 62% between 2000 and 2015, respectively. Since ...
Keywords: Malaria, Epidemic detection, Short message system (SMS), Health facility, Sentinel surveillance, Ethiopia Background Disease surveillance is one of the fundamental functions of public health systems [1], and recording and reporting of malaria cases is practiced in nearly all countries where...
(at hospitals and health centers). Weekly summaries included information on the malaria-causing pathogen (totalP. falciparumcases,P. vivaxcases, and mixed infections), age of the patients (above or below 5 years of age), the number of malaria patients with a travel history, and the number ...
in which a trained technician is able to distinguish between the four species of parasites when a smear of blood from the infected person is examined under a microscope. The method has drawbacks, however. For example, the test is time-consuming, may fail to detect cases where there are very...