1. [Epidemiological and clinical features of malaria in two villages of the Lékié division (Cameroon)].
- Author
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Ripert C, Ambroise-Thomas P, Rousselle-Sauer C, Messi JA, Tettamanti S, and Same-Ekobo A
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Cameroon, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Malaria blood, Malaria physiopathology, Male, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium malariae, Seasons, Sex Factors, Malaria epidemiology
- Abstract
The examination of the thick drops shows malaria parasites in 20,8% of the slides in Minkama and Nalassi: 95,7% of those slides are positive for P. falciparum and 4,3% for P. malariae. The parasite rate, representing the percentage of children up to 9 years of age showing parasites in their blood, is 42,2%. Using the immunofluorescent test, antibodies are found in 43,7% of the blood samples in the study area. In the hospital, 51% of the patients with malaria are 0 to 4 years old children. The clinical symptoms observed are, in a decreasing frequency, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea, myalgia, arthralgia and asthenia, convulsions, delirious or coma. They are no obvious correlations concerning the rain-gauging data and the monthly number of malaria cases admitted at the hospital in this Cameroonian rainforest area.
- Published
- 1982