Prevalence of Malaria Parasite Infection among Pregnant Women Attending General Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital Damaturu
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 6
Abstract
The study to determine the prevalence of malaria parasite infection among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at General Sanni Abatcha Specialist Hospital Damaturu, was carried out between May, 2013 and September, 2013. Both thick and thin films were made and stained using parasitological standard procedure. Two hundred and seventy nine (279) women were randomly selected without the previous knowledge on their clinical and family history, all of which ware at their child bearing age. Overall 201 (72.0%) of the 279 pregnant women investigated were positive for malaria parasites, this was prevalence among the age group 20 – 25 with the prevalence rate of 87.5%. However, Plasmodium falciparum was the only malaria parasite observed during the study. Other predisposing factors observed during the study were education status (illiteracy 88.9%), residential areas (Nayi-Nawa 88.4%) and gestation period (first trimester 87.4%) proper environmental sanitation couple with the use of insecticide treated net will go a long way in preventing malaria infection. Keywords: Prevalence, pregnant, malaria infection, Plasmodium falciparum
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Musbau. S, Bala. U, Umar. Y. D
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