malaria status in al-hodeidah governorate, yemen: malariometric parasitic survey & chloroquine resistance p. falciparum local strain. | malaria continues to be a major public health problem in al-hodeidah g. a cross-sectional malariometic parasitic survey including 4000 yemenis of various age /sex groups were enrolled in this study from 43 villages/or harah in five selected districts representing al-hodeidah g. duplicate thin and thick blood smears were stained with giemsa's stain and examined. out of 4000 examined slides, 646 (16.2%) were found to be malaria positive, 508 (78.6%) of them were detected through acd, while 138 (21 ... | 2003 | 14964651 |