title: Malaria in adult outpatients at Goroka Hospital during 1986.
abstract: Of 206 adult outpatients attending Goroka Hospital with suspected malaria during 1986, 40.3% had blood slides positive for malaria (28.2% Plasmodium falciparum, 13.6% P. vivax and 1.9% P. malariae). Parasite densities and proportions of cases with gametocytes were higher than observed in endemic regions. Acquisition of infection during recent coastal travel was implicated in the majority of cases (86%). 6 out of 13 gametocyte carriers tested were infectious to Anopheles farauti mosquitos. Anti-malaria ELISA values in sera were elevated above non-immune values in over 75% of infections, although ELISA values were low compared to those in sera from residents of coastal areas, indicating the low level of previous exposure to malaria.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Graves
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eida
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lagog
mesh_terms: D000531:Altitude; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D008297:Male; D010219:Papua New Guinea / Q000453:epidemiology; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum; D010965:Plasmodium malariae; D010966:Plasmodium vivax; D014195:Travel