Malaria Outbreak
Suspected Malaria Outbreak Investigations in Baure LGA, Katsina State, Nigeria
... Background: Malaria, a disease that is endemic in Nigeria and contributing up to 25 per cent of infant mortality and 30 per cent of under-five mortality, is among the 17 per cent of the global burden of infectious ...
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Malaria Outbreak Investigation in Chipinge, Zimbabwe: A Case-control Study
... Apart from staying in a house with open eaves, having frequent routine outdoor activities in the evening and at night was found to be sta- tistically associated with contracting malaria. For instance, night ...
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Malaria Outbreak Investigation in Mecha, Dera and Fogera Districts, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
... Introduction- Malaria is caused by the protozoan parasite plasmodium and transmitted by anopheles ...the malaria endemic districts of the ...the outbreak and guide intervention ...of malaria ...
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Malaria Outbreak Prediction Model Using Machine Learning
... of malaria and its ...for malaria outbreak prediction ...Liverpool Malaria Model” - a mathematical-biological model, Auto regressive (AR), Auto-Regressive Moving average(ARMA), Auto-Regressive ...
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Altered environment and risk of malaria outbreak in South Andaman, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India affected by tsunami disaster
... of malaria outbreak in the tsunami-affected areas in the Andaman district of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, ...falciparum malaria occurred in this area but the incidence was ...of malaria ...
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Evaluation of an operational malaria outbreak identification and response system in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
... [16,17]. Malaria risk is relatively low compared to other hyper- and holoendemic areas of sub- Saharan Africa and thus immunity does not develop in the population at ...of malaria cases are due to ...
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Multiple causes of an unexpected malaria outbreak in a high transmission area in Madagascar
... Methods: In March 2012, a cross-sectional study was conducted in 20 randomly selected clusters, involving the rapid diagnostic testing of all ≥ 6 month-old members of households and a questionnaire about ...
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Vector capacity of Anopheles sinensis in malaria outbreak areas of central China
... The average man-biting rate observed in the 1990s in the areas where An. sinensis was the only vector was 2.36 [48], however, the rates in the study sites were 6.0957 and 5.8621 according to this investigation, which is ...
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Malaria outbreak investigation in Tanquae Abergelle district, Tigray region of Ethiopia: a case–control study
... Ethical clearance was obtained from an ethical review board of Mekelle Uni- versity, College of Health Sciences and Department of Public Health. Letter of the permission was written from the field base Tigray Regional ...
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Effectiveness of 24 h mobile reporting tool during a malaria outbreak in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
... number of cases reported during the outbreak when evaluating data completeness. Data precision of paper reports was difficult to ascertain as most of the dupli- cate paper reports either generated at the facility ...
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Characterization of a recent malaria outbreak in the autonomous indigenous region of Guna Yala, Panama
... of malaria infection have shown significant spatial and temporal fluctuations in ...the malaria burden in each region for an appropriate planning of control interventions, as well as for a more rational ...
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Spatiotemporal characterisation and risk factor analysis of malaria outbreak in Cabo Verde in 2017
... Cabo Verde is an archipelago of 10 islands in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 570 km from the west- ern African coast. The population of the country was estimated to be 537,661 inhabitants [6]. The archipel- ago is ...
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Investigation of a Suspected Malaria Outbreak in Sokoto State, Nigeria, 2016
... Background: Malaria, a vector borne disease that contributes to the 17 per- cent of the global burden of infectious diseases, is preventable, treatable and completely ...laria outbreak in Sokoto state of ...
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Comparison of Blood Smear, Antigen Detection, and Nested PCR Methods for Screening Refugees from Regions Where Malaria Is Endemic after a Malaria Outbreak in Quebec, Canada
... The PCR-based method was used as the reference standard due to its established sensitivity and specificity and its advan- tages over microscopy, particularly in cases with low-level par- asitemia (17, 41). It has been ...
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Characterization of a malaria outbreak in Colombia in 2010
... Fewer malaria cases were reported in women, although ~26% of these occurred in women of repro- ductive age (ten to 54 years), <1% of them were pregnant at the time of ...of malaria cases during pregnancy ...
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Malaria Outbreak Investigation in Pastoral Communities of BenaTsemay District, Southern Ethiopia: A Case Control Study
... of malaria cases in three kebeles (lowest administrative ...the outbreak to describe malaria epidemiology in the district, identify population risk factors, and guide intervention measures for the ...
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Singapore’s Anopheles sinensis Form A is susceptible to Plasmodium vivax isolates from the western Thailand–Myanmar border
... For the An. sinensis adults, some were collected using modified CDC-light traps during spatial distribution study and ad-hoc collection in response to public feed- back on high mosquito population. A portion of adult An. ...
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Malaria outbreaks in China (1990–2013): a systematic review
... the malaria burden or to insufficient funding ...where malaria was success- fully rolled back due to insecticide ...measures, malaria cases increased again ...latest outbreak recorded occurred ...
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The need for preventive and curative services for malaria when the military is deployed in endemic overseas territories: a case study and lessons learned
... reported malaria outbreak among Sri Lankan peacekeeping forces deployed overseas in the last 5 ...for malaria, with 145 million at a high ...falciparum malaria. Malaria is the leading ...
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A Hybrid Based Classification and Regression Model for Predicting Diseases Outbreak in Datasets
... the outbreak prediction diseases using single model and same malaria outbreak dataset used by this research, a model was developed with the purpose as an early warning tool to identify potential ...
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