[Epidemiologic aspects of malaria in Gabon]

Med Trop (Mars). 1990 Jan-Mar;50(1):39-46.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The authors report the results of 3 sample surveys carried out in Libreville, Ngounié and Haut-Ogooué Provinces to evaluate the main malarial indexes among 0 to 15 years old children in Gabon. These investigations would suggest that malaria is mesoendemic in the three areas. The systematic presumptive antimarial treatment of fever attacks is widely used in Libreville but not so frequent in rural areas.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Animals
  • Antimalarials / administration & dosage
  • Antimalarials / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Epidemiologic Methods
  • Female
  • Gabon / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Malaria / blood
  • Malaria / drug therapy
  • Malaria / epidemiology*
  • Male
  • Plasmodium falciparum
  • Prevalence
  • Rural Population
  • Urban Population

Substances

  • Antimalarials