Perennial transmission of malaria in the low altitude areas of Baringo County, Kenya
Abstract Background Malaria causes the greatest public health burden in sub-Saharan Africa where high mortality occurs mainly in children under 5 years of age. Traditionally, malaria has been reported mainly in the lowlands endemic regions of western Kenya, while the highlands of the Rift Valley hav...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:c3780f77874c4434b6bc371e12811ed9 2023-05-15T15:18:00+02:00 Perennial transmission of malaria in the low altitude areas of Baringo County, Kenya Collince J. Omondi Daniel Onguru Lucy Kamau Mark Nanyingi George Ong’amo Benson Estambale 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-1904-y https://doaj.org/article/c3780f77874c4434b6bc371e12811ed9 EN eng BMC http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-017-1904-y https://doaj.org/toc/1475-2875 doi:10.1186/s12936-017-1904-y 1475-2875 https://doaj.org/article/c3780f77874c4434b6bc371e12811ed9 Malaria Journal, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017) Malaria Children RDT Riverine Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 article 2017 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-1904-y 2022-12-31T14:59:42Z Abstract Background Malaria causes the greatest public health burden in sub-Saharan Africa where high mortality occurs mainly in children under 5 years of age. Traditionally, malaria has been reported mainly in the lowlands endemic regions of western Kenya, while the highlands of the Rift Valley have been relatively free except for the sporadic epidemics in some areas. Baringo County is located in the Kenyan highlands. The county generally experiences seasonal transmission of malaria. A few hotspots which experience continuous malaria transmission in the county do however exist. The objective of this study was to assess malaria infection status and identify areas with continuous transmissions with a view to mapping out probable transmission hot spots useful in mounting focused interventions within the county. Methods Systematic sampling was employed to identify 1668 primary school pupils from fifteen primary schools located in 4 ecological zones (lowland, midland, highland and riverine) of three sub-counties of Baringo. Finger prick blood sampling was done every 4 months (during the dry season in February/March, after the long rains in June/July and short rains in November 2015). Malaria occurrence was tested using rapid diagnostic test kit (CareStart HRP-2 Pf). Microscopic examination was done on all RDT positive and 10% of negative cases. Results A total of 268 (16.1%), out of 1668 pupils tested positive for Plasmodium falciparum by RDT; 78% had a single episode, 16.8% had 2 episodes, 4.9% had 3 episodes and 0.4% had 4 episodes. The riverine zone had the highest malaria cases (23.2%) followed by lowlands (0.9%). No malaria cases were detected in the midland zone while highland zone recorded only few cases during the third follow up. Up to 10.7% of malaria cases were reported in the dry season, 2.9% during the long rains and 5.7% in short rains season. Conclusions Malaria infection was prevalent in Baringo County and was mainly restricted to the riverine zone where transmission is continuous throughout the ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Midland ENVELOPE(8.224,8.224,63.072,63.072) Malaria Journal 16 1 |
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Abstract Background Malaria causes the greatest public health burden in sub-Saharan Africa where high mortality occurs mainly in children under 5 years of age. Traditionally, malaria has been reported mainly in the lowlands endemic regions of western Kenya, while the highlands of the Rift Valley have been relatively free except for the sporadic epidemics in some areas. Baringo County is located in the Kenyan highlands. The county generally experiences seasonal transmission of malaria. A few hotspots which experience continuous malaria transmission in the county do however exist. The objective of this study was to assess malaria infection status and identify areas with continuous transmissions with a view to mapping out probable transmission hot spots useful in mounting focused interventions within the county. Methods Systematic sampling was employed to identify 1668 primary school pupils from fifteen primary schools located in 4 ecological zones (lowland, midland, highland and riverine) of three sub-counties of Baringo. Finger prick blood sampling was done every 4 months (during the dry season in February/March, after the long rains in June/July and short rains in November 2015). Malaria occurrence was tested using rapid diagnostic test kit (CareStart HRP-2 Pf). Microscopic examination was done on all RDT positive and 10% of negative cases. Results A total of 268 (16.1%), out of 1668 pupils tested positive for Plasmodium falciparum by RDT; 78% had a single episode, 16.8% had 2 episodes, 4.9% had 3 episodes and 0.4% had 4 episodes. The riverine zone had the highest malaria cases (23.2%) followed by lowlands (0.9%). No malaria cases were detected in the midland zone while highland zone recorded only few cases during the third follow up. Up to 10.7% of malaria cases were reported in the dry season, 2.9% during the long rains and 5.7% in short rains season. Conclusions Malaria infection was prevalent in Baringo County and was mainly restricted to the riverine zone where transmission is continuous throughout the ... |
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Perennial transmission of malaria in the low altitude areas of Baringo County, Kenya |
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Perennial transmission of malaria in the low altitude areas of Baringo County, Kenya |
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