| [epidemiological aspects of malaria in 2 villages of the manyemen forest region (cameroon, southwest province)]. | in terms of parasitaemia in blood, the prevalence was 18.7% for plasmodium falciparum, 10.5% for p. ovale and 1% for p. malariae in the villages of mungo ndor and kokobuma. the plasmodial index of children from 2 to 9 years of age was 38.2% and the spleen index 26.6%, with a mean hackett score of 1.56. malaria is thus meso-endemic in the region. the immunofluorescent test performed with a p. falciparum antigen was positive in 66% of the children in the same age group. parasites were seen in 15% ... | 1986 | 3523108 |
| the epidemiology of malaria in bolifamba, a rural community on the eastern slopes of mount cameroon: seasonal variation in the parasitological indices of transmission. | the prevalences of malarial parasitaemia, fever, splenomegaly and anaemia and the levels of parasitaemia were investigated, through part of one wet season (in 2001) and the following dry season (in 2002), in 2157 subjects in the village of bolifamba, in south-western cameroon. overall, 55.9% of the villagers checked in the wet season but only 49.5% of those examined in the dry season were found smear-positive for malaria (p<0.0001). rainfall was found to be significantly associated with the mean ... | 2005 | 15829131 |