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Seasonal prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection and use of insecticide-treated nets among children in three agroecosystems in Aboisso, Côte d’Ivoire
- Source :
- Parasitology Research. 120:3663-3671
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Agroecosystems have been associated with risk of malaria. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between three agroecosystems: (i) rubber plantation (RP); (ii) oil palm plantation (OPP); (iii) no cash crop plantation (NCCP) and the prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection among children living in the Aboisso region. In the three villages within (Ehania-V5) or close (N’zikro) or far from (Ayebo) to each agroecosystem (RP, OPP, and NCCP), two cross-sectional parasitological surveys were carried out during the dry and the peak of the long wet seasons. A total of 586 children aged 1–14 years were recruited in the three villages to determine the prevalence of malaria using conventional microscopy. Plasmodium falciparum was the dominant species with an overall infection prevalence of 40.8%. There was a significant difference in prevalence between agroecosystems, during both the dry (p = 0.002) and wet seasons (p
- Subjects :
- Agroecosystem
Wet season
Veterinary medicine
Multivariate analysis
General Veterinary
biology
business.industry
Cash crop
Plasmodium falciparum
General Medicine
Plasmodium falciparum infection
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Infectious Diseases
Agriculture
Insect Science
parasitic diseases
medicine
Parasitology
business
Malaria
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14321955 and 09320113
- Volume :
- 120
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Parasitology Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1c21d4313a65142ab79321dbd0dfd0e2