Malaria Mortality in Venezuela: Focus on Deaths due to Plasmodium vivax in Children

Morbidity and mortality burden of malaria in the childhood represents a public health threat not only in countries with high levels of transmission, but also in those, such as Venezuela and others in Latin America, with moderate to low transmission. Usually its mortality has been attributed just to...

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Published in:Journal of tropical pediatrics (1980) 2008-04, Vol.54 (2), p.94-101
Main Authors: Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J., Benítez, Jesús A., Arria, Melissa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child, Preschool
children
Death Certificates
Female
General aspects
Human protozoal diseases
Humans
Infant
Infectious diseases
Malaria
Malaria, Falciparum - diagnosis
Malaria, Falciparum - epidemiology
Malaria, Falciparum - mortality
Malaria, Vivax - diagnosis
Malaria, Vivax - epidemiology
Malaria, Vivax - mortality
Male
Medical sciences
mortality
Parasitic diseases
Plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium vivax
Protozoal diseases
Registries
Sex Distribution
South America
Venezuela - epidemiology
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Summary:Morbidity and mortality burden of malaria in the childhood represents a public health threat not only in countries with high levels of transmission, but also in those, such as Venezuela and others in Latin America, with moderate to low transmission. Usually its mortality has been attributed just to Plasmodium falciparum malaria, but the changing patterns of increase in Plasmodium vivax malaria morbidity and mortality are now causing concern. We studied malaria mortality by analyzing different epidemiological variables during a 10-year period in Venezuela, finding mortality rates ranging 0.10–0.36 deaths/100 000 population, with almost a third of deaths in children (
ISSN:0142-6338
1465-3664
DOI:10.1093/tropej/fmm074