Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Parasit Vectors. 2014 Apr 15;7:186. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-186.
Malaria is still an endemic disease of public health importance in Malaysia. Populations at risk of contracting malaria includes indigenous people, traditional villagers, mobile ethnic groups and land scheme settlers, immigrants from malaria endemic countries as well as jungle workers and loggers. The predominant species are Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax. An increasing number of P. knowlesi infections have also been encountered. The principal vectors in Peninsular Malaysia are Anopheles maculatus and An. cracens. This study aims to determine the changes in spatial distribution of malaria in Peninsular Malaysia from year 2000-2009.
Data for the study was collected from Ministry of Health, Malaysia and was analysed using Geographic Information System (GIS).
Changes for a period of 10 years of malaria spatial distribution in 12 states of Peninsular Malaysia were documented and discussed. This is illustrated by digital mapping according to five variables; incidence rate (IR), fatality rate (FR), annual blood examination rate (ABER), annual parasite index (API) and slide positivity rate (SPR).
There is a profound change in the spatial distribution of malaria within a 10-year period. This is evident from the digital mapping of the infection in Peninsular Malaysia.
疟疾仍是马来西亚具有公共卫生重要性的地方病。有感染疟疾风险的人群包括原住民、传统村民、流动族群和土地垦殖计划定居者、来自疟疾流行国家的移民以及丛林工人和伐木工。主要的疟原虫物种为恶性疟原虫和间日疟原虫。也越来越多地发现有卵形疟原虫感染。在马来西亚半岛的主要病媒是斑蚊属和库蚊属。本研究旨在确定 2000 年至 2009 年期间马来西亚半岛疟疾的空间分布变化。
本研究的数据来自马来西亚卫生部，并使用地理信息系统（GIS）进行分析。
记录并讨论了马来西亚半岛 12 个州在 10 年内疟疾空间分布的变化。这通过根据五个变量（发病率、死亡率、年度血液检查率、年度寄生虫指数和玻片阳性率）进行数字制图来说明。
在 10 年内，疟疾的空间分布发生了深刻的变化。这从马来西亚半岛感染的数字制图中可以明显看出。
