Prevalence of Human Malaria Infection in District
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This paper reports the prevalence of malarial parasites in the human population of District Ziarat and Sanjavi. Out of a total of 3765 blood samples 26.8% were found positive for malarial parasite. The incidence of Plasmodium falciparum was 69.5% and that of P. vivax was 30.2%. The incidence was higher (75.9%) in males. Age wise, the prevalence of the disease was 22.2% in Ziarat and 35.2% in Sanjavi for age group 11-20 and 21 years and above the prevalence was 30.6% in Ziarat and 51.5% in Sanjavi in May and September, respectively. No case of P. malariae and P. ovale was detected.
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