[Epidemiological and clinical features of malaria in two villages of the Lékié division (Cameroon)].
The examination of the thick drops shows malaria parasites in 20,8% of the slides in Minkama and Nalassi: 95,7% of those slides are positive for P. falciparum and 4,3% for P. malariae. The parasite rate, representing the percentage of children up to 9 years of age showing parasites in their blood, is 42,2%. Using the immunofluorescent test, antibodies are found in 43,7% of the blood samples in the study area. In the hospital, 51% of the patients with malaria are 0 to 4 years old children. The clinical symptoms observed are, in a decreasing frequency, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea, myalgia, arthralgia and asthenia, convulsions, delirious or coma. They are no obvious correlations concerning the rain-gauging data and the monthly number of malaria cases admitted at the hospital in this Cameroonian rainforest area.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002163:Cameroon; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008288:Malaria / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum; D010965:Plasmodium malariae; D012621:Seasons; D012737:Sex Factors
Aspects épidémiologiques et cliniques du paludisme dans deux villages du département de la Lékié (Cameroun).