The Relationship between Malaria Cases as Cause of P. falciparum and P.vivax against Demographic Factors from Symptomatic Patients in Jayapura General Hospital, Papua Province, Indonesia

Background. Malaria is ancient disease who transmitted through Anopheles mosquitoes to the human. It is still a poses of major publich health problem in Papua. Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites that lives and multiplay in human red blood cells. Objective. The aim of this study was to determin of relationship between malaria cases were infected through P. falciparum and P. vivax against demographic factors of Symptomatic patients at Jayapura general hospital. Methods. Type of this study is descriptive research who is using cross sectional design. Result. Total of sample 600 patients after having thick and thin blood smear examination which were 179 patients found to be positive was infected. It was consisting 131 (73.2 %) patients carried by P. falciparum and 48 (28 %) patiens carried with P. vivax. Conclution. Based on the result study indicated that there were not relationship between malaria cases with almost all of demographic factors from symptomatic patients but only genders. The majority malaria symptomatic patients were infected through P. falciparum than P. vivax. Generally the malaria patients that illnes from ages group over 20 years old which were male. They were not working and having habits that always outside of the house all the night by education level with senior high school and sleeping without mosquito nets.