Tesfay Kebede, Yohannes Mokenen, Bayisa Sena
Department of Medical Laboratory, College of Medicine and Health Science, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Ethiopia.
Department of Biomedical, College of Health Science, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
BMC Res Notes. 2018 Dec 17;11(1):900. doi: 10.1186/s13104-018-4003-4.
Malaria remains still the leading cause of outpatient visits and death in Ethiopia. However, little is known about its trend in the study area. Hence, this study was aimed to assess 6-year (2011-2016) trend of malaria prevalence. A retrospective cross-sectional study design was conducted to assess 6-year trends of malaria prevalence in Raya Azebo district, North Ethiopia. Malaria case recorded from 2011 to 2016 was extracted using similar format.
A total of 29,930 malaria cases were reported from 2011 to 2016. Of these, 23,018 were confirmed cases while, 6912 were reported as clinical cases. Plasmodium falciparum (56.9%) was the most dominated species. Malaria was reported in all age group and both sexes with highest in male and > 15 age categories. The highest peak malaria distribution was occurred in spring season. The overall trends of malaria case were increased in the past 6 years (2011-2016) with exception slightly decreased from 2012 to 2013. Therefore, Strong effort is needed to improve malaria prevention and controlling method in study area.
疟疾仍然是埃塞俄比亚门诊就诊和死亡的主要原因。然而，对研究地区疟疾的趋势了解甚少。因此，本研究旨在评估6年（2011 - 2016年）间疟疾流行趋势。采用回顾性横断面研究设计，评估埃塞俄比亚北部拉亚阿泽博地区6年疟疾流行趋势。以相似格式提取2011年至2016年记录的疟疾病例。
2011年至2016年共报告29930例疟疾病例。其中，确诊病例23018例，临床病例6912例。恶性疟原虫（56.9%）为最主要的种类。所有年龄组和男女两性均有疟疾报告，男性和15岁以上年龄组报告最多。疟疾分布的最高峰出现在春季。在过去6年（2011 - 2016年），疟疾病例总体呈上升趋势，2012年至2013年略有下降除外。因此，需要大力努力改进研究地区疟疾的预防和控制方法。
