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15980030

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-8-12
pubmed:abstractText
The study was designed to determine the prevalence of congenital malaria, cord blood and placental malaria parasitaemia and the prevalence of clinical manifestations of congenital malaria. Ile-Ife is a holoendemic area for malaria. Placental, cord and peripheral blood smears of 120 newborn babies were examined for malaria parasites. They consisted of 104 (86.7 per cent) full term babies and 16 (13.3 per cent) preterm babies. Positive parasitaemia was found in 56 (46.7 per cent) of peripheral blood smears, 68 (56.7 per cent) and 65 (54.2 per cent) of the placental and cord blood smears respectively. There were strong associations between placental malaria and cord malaria parasitaemia and congenital malaria (p < 0.001). Congenital malaria has a high prevalence in Ile-Ife. There is a paucity of its clinical manifestations in the newborn. Only two babies had fever within 48 hours of birth.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0142-6338
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
51
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
219-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-3-28
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Prevalence of congenital malaria in Ile-ife, Nigeria.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. pobiajun10@yahoo.co.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article