Mortality and morbidity from malaria among children in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa.
Mortality and morbidity from malaria were measured among 3000 children under the age of 7 years in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. Using a post-mortem questionnaire technique, malaria was identified as the probable cause of 4% of infant deaths and of 25% of deaths in children aged 1 to 4 ye...
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| author | Greenwood, B Bradley, A Greenwood, A Byass, P Jammeh, K Marsh, K Tulloch, S Oldfield, F Hayes, R |
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| description | Mortality and morbidity from malaria were measured among 3000 children under the age of 7 years in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. Using a post-mortem questionnaire technique, malaria was identified as the probable cause of 4% of infant deaths and of 25% of deaths in children aged 1 to 4 years. The malaria mortality rate was 6.3 per 1000 per year in infants and 10.7 per 1000 per year in children aged 1 to 4 years. Morbidity surveys suggested that children under the age of 7 years experienced about one clinical episode of malaria per year. Calculation of attributable fractions showed that malaria may be responsible for about 40% of episodes of fever in children. Although the overall level of parasitaemia showed little seasonal variation, the clinical impact of malaria was highly seasonal; all malaria deaths and a high proportion of febrile episodes were recorded during a limited period at the end of the rainy season. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:64a8b84f-7ded-426f-8929-b38e499684e22022-03-26T18:20:19ZMortality and morbidity from malaria among children in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:64a8b84f-7ded-426f-8929-b38e499684e2EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford1987Greenwood, BBradley, AGreenwood, AByass, PJammeh, KMarsh, KTulloch, SOldfield, FHayes, RMortality and morbidity from malaria were measured among 3000 children under the age of 7 years in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. Using a post-mortem questionnaire technique, malaria was identified as the probable cause of 4% of infant deaths and of 25% of deaths in children aged 1 to 4 years. The malaria mortality rate was 6.3 per 1000 per year in infants and 10.7 per 1000 per year in children aged 1 to 4 years. Morbidity surveys suggested that children under the age of 7 years experienced about one clinical episode of malaria per year. Calculation of attributable fractions showed that malaria may be responsible for about 40% of episodes of fever in children. Although the overall level of parasitaemia showed little seasonal variation, the clinical impact of malaria was highly seasonal; all malaria deaths and a high proportion of febrile episodes were recorded during a limited period at the end of the rainy season. |
| spellingShingle | Greenwood, B Bradley, A Greenwood, A Byass, P Jammeh, K Marsh, K Tulloch, S Oldfield, F Hayes, R Mortality and morbidity from malaria among children in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. |
| title | Mortality and morbidity from malaria among children in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. |
| title_full | Mortality and morbidity from malaria among children in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. |
| title_fullStr | Mortality and morbidity from malaria among children in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mortality and morbidity from malaria among children in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. |
| title_short | Mortality and morbidity from malaria among children in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. |
| title_sort | mortality and morbidity from malaria among children in a rural area of the gambia west africa |
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