What is it about?
In Nigeria older reports had it that 6 of 10 people at outpatient clinic had malaria but recent evidence in 2016 appears to suggest malaria‑related morbidity and mortality has reduced globally. We aimed at find how this global finding applied in our semi-urban setting among febrile outpatients. Among 290 randomly selected general and pediatric outpatients who were between 0.25–62.0 yrs; 50.3% were females; Overall malaria prevalence was 65.5%; the incidence was highest in ≥15 years age‑group (30.3%) followed by ≤4 years age group (20.7%). Clinical features predicting malaria parasitemia were pallor and history of convulsion. Clinical features poorly predicted malaria parasite density among participants. We Concluded that malaria prevalence worryingly high and that global success in morbidity reduction did not reflect in the study area
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Why is it important?
There was a need to review or modify current malaria control programs using more comprehensive strategies.
Perspectives
Our study showed that strategies to change the malaria morbidity pattern in the study area and similar settings have to change.
Dr Godpower Chinedu Michael
Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano, Nigeria
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This page is a summary of: Investigation of malaria by microscopy among febrile outpatients of a semi-rural nigerian medical center: What happened to malaria control programs?, Nigerian Journal of General Practice, January 2019, Medknow,
DOI: 10.4103/njgp.njgp_5_18.
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