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Epidemiology Of Malaria In Lal Qilla

Journal: International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research (Vol.2, No. 11)

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Page : 199-202

Keywords : Key words Malaria. Epidemiological descriptive study. Plamodium vivax. Plasmodium falciparum.;

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Abstract

Abstract The present study was conducted in Lal Qilla Dir Lower Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan during the period from January 2003 to December 2003. The purpose of the study was to find out the prevalence of malaria among the local community of the selected area visited to health care center. An epidemiological descriptive study was design and the data was collected from the Rural Health Center RHC Lal Qilla. For the collection of data a standard design chart sheet were used. The analysis of the data was done. The total 1091 samples were selected for the current study. Out of the total samples 189 17.32 were found positive for malaria with a ratio 111 58.7 male and 78 41.3 were female. The high number of malaria cases was recorded in age 15-64 years 145 76.72 while the lowest number of malaria cases were recorded in age 65 years 18 9.52. Where the month is concern the high number of cases was recorded in June 18 23.38 while the lowest were found in January 2 8.34. The species wise distribution shows that the high number of cases was recorded of Plasmodium vivax 188 99.47 where the Plasmodium faciparum is 1 0.53. From the present it was concluded that the Plasmodium vivax is most common species in the selected area.

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