Prevalence of Malaria and Typhoid Fever Co-infection and the Haematological Profile of Patients Attending Hospitals in Wukari Taraba State, Nigeria Citation (original) (raw)

This study on the prevalence of malaria and typhoid fever co-infection and the haematological profile of patients attending hospitals in Wukari Taraba State was concluded in June, 2017. The aim was to determine the prevalence of malaria and typhoid fever co-infection and their effects on blood parameters. It goes without saying, that both malaria and typhoid fever are endemic in the tropical regions in which Nigeria is no exception. Veinous blood was used for the various analyses. Of the 100 patients examined, 88(88%) patients were positive for malaria and 64(64%) patients were positive for typhoid fever. Females were more infected with both malaria and typhoid fever (91% and 64.2% respectively) than males (84% and 63.6% respectively). However, the difference in the prevalence of infections between the genders were statistically insignificant (P >0.05). In the prevalence of co-infection, 56(56%) patients were co-infected. Of the 56 patients, 23(52.3%) were males and 33(58.9%) were females. Gender and age wise, males between age group 31-40years had the highest co-infection (75%) while females between age group 41-50years had the highest prevalence of co-morbidity. In the haematological analyses, this study showed that a reasonable percentage of malaria and typhoid fever infected patients were anaemic (25%), 5.4% had higher than normal leucocyte count, 21.4% with lymphocyte count lower than normal and 8.9% of the co-infected patients had monocyte count higher than the normal range.

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