Malaria serosurvey among acute febrile patients come for health care seeking at the high malaria-endemic setting of North West Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to assess malaria seroprevalence among acute febrile illness cases who come for health care seeking in the high malaria-endemic setting of North West Ethiopia.

Methods

Institutional-based descriptive serosurvey of malaria infections was employed among 18,386 febrile patients from September 2020 to August 2021. Data were entered using Epi Data version 4.2 and exported to STATA (SE) R-14 version statistical software for further analysis. Bi-variable and multivariable regression analyses were conducted to identify malaria infection. Finally, variables with P-value less than 0.05 were considered significant predictors for malaria infection.

Results

The mean (±standard deviation) age of participants was 48.6 (±18.4) years. The overall seropreval

SUBMITTER: Kebede F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9290101 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature