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1. Hospitalizations and Deaths Associated with Diarrhea and Respiratory Diseases among Children Aged 0–5 Years in a Referral Hospital of Mauritania

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Mohamed Lemine Cheikh Brahim Ahmed, Abdellahi Weddih, Mohammed Benhafid, Mohamed Abdellahi Bollahi, Mariem Sidatt, Khattry Makhalla, Ali H. Mokdad, Jorg Heukelbach, and Abdelkarim Filali-Maltouf

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respiratory diseases, diarrhea, hospitalizations, children, Mauritania, deaths, Medicine
Abstract

Diarrhea and respiratory diseases are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among

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2018
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2. Malaria prevalence and morbidity among children reporting at health facilities in Nouakchott, Mauritania

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Abdallahi O. Weddih, Khadijetou Mint Lekweiry, Adeline Marin-Jauffre, Mohamed Salem Ould Ahmedou Salem, Leonardo K. Basco, Ali Ould Mohamed Salem Boukhary, Jean-François Trape, Hervé Bogreau, Sébastien Briolant, C. Rogier, Bruno Pradines, and Jamal Eddine Hafid

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Wet season, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Fever, Autochtonous transmission, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium falciparum, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Environmental health, parasitic diseases, Epidemiology, medicine, Prevalence, Humans, Child, Children, Rapid diagnostic test, Under-five, biology, business.industry, Incidence (epidemiology), Public health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infant, Newborn, Mauritania, Infant, General Medicine, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Malaria, Infectious Diseases, Child, Preschool, Immunology, Parasitology, Female, Seasons, Morbidity, business, Sentinel Surveillance
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Summary Although malaria has become a serious public health problem in Mauritania since the late 1990s, few documented data on its epidemiology exist. The objective of this study was to assess the morbidity of clinical malaria among children in Nouakchott. Three hundred and one febrile children, consulting at three health facilities of Nouakchott, were screened for malaria in 2009 (n = 216) and 2010 (n = 85). Plasmodium species identification and parasite density were determined by microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained thin and thick films and confirmed by rapid diagnostic test and nested PCR. Of 301 febrile children, 105 (34.9%) were malaria-positive by nested PCR and 87 (28.9%) by microscopy. Plasmodium vivax represented 97.1% (102/105) and P. falciparum accounted for 2.9% (3/105) of positive cases. All positive children under five years old were infected with P. vivax. The highest numbers of malaria positives were found during or shortly after the rainy season and the lowest during the dry season. Fifty-four of 105 (51.4%) malaria cases, all with P. vivax, had never travelled outside Nouakchott. Individuals belonging to the Moors ethnic group represented 97.0% of P. vivax cases. Results of the present study indicate that malaria is endemic in Nouakchott and that P. vivax is the principal causative agent. Regular surveillance is required to monitor malaria prevalence and incidence, and further measures are needed to counter the possible spread of malaria in the country.

Published
2011

3. Malaria prevalence and morbidity among children reporting at health facilities in Nouakchott, Mauritania

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Lekweiry, Khadijetou Mint, Basco, Leonardo K., Salem, Mohamed Salem O. Ahmedou, Hafid, Jamal Eddine, Marin-Jauffre, Adeline, Weddih, Abdallahi O., Briolant, Sébastien, Bogreau, Hervé, Pradines, Bruno, Rogier, Christophe, Trape, Jean-François, and Boukhary, Ali O. Mohamed Salem O.

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MALARIA, DISEASE prevalence, JUVENILE diseases, HEALTH facilities, PUBLIC health, EPIDEMIOLOGY, DISEASE incidence
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Summary: Although malaria has become a serious public health problem in Mauritania since the late 1990s, few documented data on its epidemiology exist. The objective of this study was to assess the morbidity of clinical malaria among children in Nouakchott. Three hundred and one febrile children, consulting at three health facilities of Nouakchott, were screened for malaria in 2009 (n =216) and 2010 (n =85). Plasmodium species identification and parasite density were determined by microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained thin and thick films and confirmed by rapid diagnostic test and nested PCR. Of 301 febrile children, 105 (34.9%) were malaria-positive by nested PCR and 87 (28.9%) by microscopy. Plasmodium vivax represented 97.1% (102/105) and P. falciparum accounted for 2.9% (3/105) of positive cases. All positive children under five years old were infected with P. vivax. The highest numbers of malaria positives were found during or shortly after the rainy season and the lowest during the dry season. Fifty-four of 105 (51.4%) malaria cases, all with P. vivax, had never travelled outside Nouakchott. Individuals belonging to the Moors ethnic group represented 97.0% of P. vivax cases. Results of the present study indicate that malaria is endemic in Nouakchott and that P. vivax is the principal causative agent. Regular surveillance is required to monitor malaria prevalence and incidence, and further measures are needed to counter the possible spread of malaria in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2011
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