Increasing Burden of Childhood Severe Malaria in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital: Implication for Control

Malaria remains an important public heath concern in Nigeria because of its impact on child and maternal health, but the contribution of severe malaria to morbidity among Nigerian children was scantly reported. This study was undertaking to document the hospital-burden of severe malaria among childr...

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Published in:Journal of tropical pediatrics (1980) 2007-06, Vol.53 (3), p.185-189
Main Authors: Orimadegun, Adebola Emmanuel, Fawole, Olufunmi, Okereke, James Okorie, Akinbami, Felix Olukayode, Sodeinde, Olugbemiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
anaemia
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child, Preschool
Cost of Illness
Female
General aspects
Hospitalization
Human protozoal diseases
Humans
Infant
Infectious diseases
Malaria
Malaria - economics
Malaria - epidemiology
Malaria, Cerebral - economics
Malaria, Cerebral - epidemiology
Malaria, Falciparum - economics
Malaria, Falciparum - epidemiology
Male
Medical sciences
morbidity
mortality
Nigeria - epidemiology
Parasitic diseases
Plasmodium falciparum
Prevalence
Protozoal diseases
Retrospective Studies
severe malaria
Severity of Illness Index
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Summary:Malaria remains an important public heath concern in Nigeria because of its impact on child and maternal health, but the contribution of severe malaria to morbidity among Nigerian children was scantly reported. This study was undertaking to document the hospital-burden of severe malaria among children in Ibadan in order to reflect on the impacts and health implications of the current malaria control strategies. A review of 6-year case records of all children admitted to the emergency ward of the University College Hospital Ibadan was carried out. Cases of severe malaria were defined as those children in whom parasitaemia were confirmed with blood film microscopy and any of the WHO case definitions for severe malaria was documented. Severe malaria cases constituted 11.3% of 16 031 admissions (2000–05) with 89.1% being children
ISSN:0142-6338
1465-3664
DOI:10.1093/tropej/fmm002