Malaria signs and infection rate among asymptomatic schoolchildren in Hajr valley, Yemen

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-40

  Mohanna, M A Bin ^a   Ghouth, A S Bin ^b   Raja'a, Y A ^a  

^a SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^b HADHRAMOUT UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; YEMEN;

EID: 34547849710     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Kachur SP, Boland PB. Malaria. In: Wallace RB, ed. Maxey-Rosenau-Last Public health and preventive medicine, 14th ed. Stamford, Connecticut, Appleton and Lange, 1998:313-26.
2. Lindsay SW et al. Exposure of Gambian children to Anopheles gambia malaria vectors in an irrigated rice production area. Medical and veterinary entomology, 1995, 9:50-8.
3. Burkot TR. Non-random host selection by Anopheles mosquitoes. Parasitology today, 1988, 4:156-62.
4. Greenwood BM. Impact of culture and environmental changes on epidemiology and control of malaria and babesiosis. The microepidemiology of malaria and its importance to malaria control. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1989, 83:25-9.
5. Schofield CI, White GB. Engineering against insect-born diseases and domestic environment: house design and domestic vectors of disease. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1984, 78:285-92.
6. Gilles HM. Tropical diseases. In: Oglivie C, ed. Chamberlain's symptoms and signs in clinical medicine, 10th ed. Bristol, John Wright, 1983:471-85.
7. Gilles HM, Warrell DA. Bruce-Chwatt's essential malariology, 3rd ed. London, Arnold, 1993:12-34.
8. WHO recommended surveillance standards, 2nd ed. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1999:79-81 (WHO/CDS/CSR/ISR/99.2).
9. Making a difference. Chapter 4: Rolling back malaria. In: The world health report 1999. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1999:49-63.
10. Azazi AA, Al-Duleimi SS, Basil FA. Prevalence of malaria among patients seen at public health laboratory in 1994-1995 in Sana'a. Yemen medical journal, 1998, 2:59-63.
11. Eradication and elimination of disease. Alexandria, World Health Organization, 1998: 4-5 (EMRO Technical Paper Series 6).
12. Severe falciparum malaria. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2000, 94 (Suppl. 1):26-7.
13. Epidemiology Unit. Summary of monthly morbidity report, 2000. Hajr, Yemen, Hajr Health Office, 2000.
14. Gupte S. Short textbook of pediatrics, 4th ed. New Delhi, Jaypee Brothers, 1983:169-72.
15. Al Solwi KAT. Malaria in the Republic of Yemen [PhD thesis]. University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Carol-Davila, Bucharest, Romania, 1993 (Available from WHO regional office library, Sana'a).
16. Macleod J, Davidson S. Principles and practice of medicine, 14th ed. London, Churchill Livingstone 1984:768-73.
17. Friis H et al. Does Schistosoma haematobium co-infection reduce the risk of malaria-induced splenomegaly? Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2000, 94: 535-8.
18. McGregor IA et al. Effects of heavy and repeated malaria infections on Gambian infants and children. Effects of erythrocytic parasitization. British medical journal, 1956:2:686-92.
19. Gravenor MB, McLean AR, Kwiatkowski D. The regulation of malaria parasitaemia: parameter estimates for a population model. Parasitology, 1995. 110:115-22.
20. May J et al. Impact of sub-patent multispecies and multi-clonal plasmodial infections on anaemia in children from Nigeria. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2000, 94:399-403.