Asymptomatic Malaria Correlates with Anaemia in Pregnant Women at Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Sub-Saharan Africa records each year about thirty-two million pregnant women living in areas of high transmission of Plasmodium falciparum causing malaria. The aim of this study was to carve out the prevalence of asymptomatic malaria among pregnant women and to emphasize its influence on haematologi...

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Published in:BioMed research international 2012-01, Vol.2012 (2012), p.1-6
Main Authors: Simpore, Jacques, Pietra, Virginio, Bazie, Valérie Jean Telesphore, Nikiema, Jean-Baptiste, Compaoré, Tegwindé R., Djigma, Florencia W., Douamba, Zoenabo, Bisseye, Cyrille
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Anemia - blood
Anemia - complications
Anemia - epidemiology
Asymptomatic Infections - epidemiology
Biomedical research
Burkina Faso - epidemiology
Cellulose acetate
Demography
Female
Health facilities
Homocysteine
Humans
Insecticides
Malaria
Malaria, Falciparum - blood
Malaria, Falciparum - complications
Malaria, Falciparum - epidemiology
Malaria, Falciparum - parasitology
Microscopy
Parasites
Plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium falciparum - physiology
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic - blood
Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic - epidemiology
Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic - blood
Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic - epidemiology
Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic - parasitology
Prevalence
Young Adult
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Summary:Sub-Saharan Africa records each year about thirty-two million pregnant women living in areas of high transmission of Plasmodium falciparum causing malaria. The aim of this study was to carve out the prevalence of asymptomatic malaria among pregnant women and to emphasize its influence on haematological markers. The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum asymptomatic infection among pregnant women was 30% and 24% with rapid detection test (RDT) and microscopy, respectively. The prevalence of P. falciparum asymptomatic malaria was reduced among pregnant women using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine's intermittent preventive treatment and 61% of them were anaemic. Anaemia was significantly more common in women infected with P. falciparum compared with the uninfected pregnant women. Most of the women had normal levels of homocysteine and low levels of folate, respectively. Therefore, the systematic diagnosis of malaria should be introduced to pregnant women as a part of the antenatal care.
ISSN:1110-7243
2314-6133
1110-7251
2314-6141
DOI:10.1155/2012/198317