Epidemiological characteristics of Plasmodium malariae malaria in China: a malaria that should not be neglected post elimination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plasmodium malariae was always neglected compared with P. falciparum and P. vivax. In the present study, we aimed to describe the epidemiology of reported cases infected with P. malariae in the past decade to raise awareness of the potential threat of this malaria parasite in China.

Methods

Individual data of malaria cases infected with P. malariae reported in China in the past decade were collected via the China Information System for Disease Control and Prevention and Parasitic Diseases Information Reporting Management System, to explore their epidemiological characteristics. Pearson Chi-square tests or Fisher's Exact Test was used in the statistical analysis.

Results

From 2013 to 2022, a total of 581 P. malariae cases were reported in China, and mainly c

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10658989 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature