[Malarial indices in 938 children and adolescents in the humid savanna area of the south of Mali]

Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales. 1980 May-Jun;73(3):254-8.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The authors draw up "paludometric indications" by studying 938 children and youths, in the Kadiolo area, a humid savanna in the south of Mali, by the end of the dry season (beginning of March). These results give a global indication of 70.6% (cases of malaria) with 94.4% of P. falciparum and 9.96% cases of gametocytic indications. The numbers obtained far from the rainy season let us think that the annual transmission of malaria is continuous with a recrudescence in the humid season explaining largely the infantile mortality. The use of Nivaquine may easily protect these populations from the risk of malaria disease.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Chloroquine / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Geography
  • Humans
  • Malaria / epidemiology
  • Malaria / parasitology*
  • Malaria / prevention & control
  • Male
  • Mali
  • Plasmodium / isolation & purification*
  • Seasons

Substances

  • Chloroquine