Prevalence of malaria parasitemia and accuracy of microscopic diagnosis in Haiti October 1995
Rev. panam. salud publica
; 3(1): 35-9, Jan.1998. maps, tab
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ABSTRACT
In October 1995 the Ministry of Public Health and Population in Haiti surveyed 42 health facilities for the prevalence and distribution of malaria infection. They examined 1,803 peripheral blood smears from patients with suspected malaria; the overall slide positivity rate was 4.0 percent (range, 0.0 percent to 14.3 percent). The rate was lowest among 1-to 4-year-old children (1.6 percent) and highest among persons aged 15 and older (5.5 percent). Clinical and microscopic diagnoses of malaria were unreliable; the overall sensitivity of microscopic diagnosis was 83.6 percent, specificity was 88.6 percent, and the predictive value of a positive slide was 22.2 percent. Microscopic diagnoses need to be improved, and edequate surveillance must be reestablished to identify areas where transmission is most intense. The generally low level of malaria is encouraging and suggests that intensified control efforts (AU)
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Base de dados:
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Assunto principal:
Saúde Pública
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Prevalência
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Inquéritos de Morbidade
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Surtos de Doenças
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Mortalidade
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Haiti
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Malária
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe
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Haiti
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Rev. panam. salud publica
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Article