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Urbanization and symptomatic malaria in relation to retroviral screening

A descriptive cross-section analysis of five hundred patients who were symptomatically diagnosed of malaria in three locations: Saki (peri-urban), Ibadan (urban) and Lagos (highly urbanized) were recruited for this study using a well structured questionnaire between September 2005 and June 2006. The...

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720 |a Adeoti, O. M.  |e author 
720 |a Anumudu, C. I.  |e author 
720 |a Olaniyan, M. F.  |e author 
720 |a Adejumobi, C. A.  |e author 
720 |a Ajifowobaje, C. O.  |e author 
720 |a Owolabi, A. G.  |e author 
720 |a Hammed, O.  |e author 
260 |c 2008 
520 |a A descriptive cross-section analysis of five hundred patients who were symptomatically diagnosed of malaria in three locations: Saki (peri-urban), Ibadan (urban) and Lagos (highly urbanized) were recruited for this study using a well structured questionnaire between September 2005 and June 2006. The prevalence of both malaria and HIV infections were higher in Peri-Urban town than the other two locations. We observed that 80% were HIV positive in Saki. 20% in Ibadan and 37.1 % in Lagos. Our data indicated that 74% were malaria positive in Saki, 87% in Lagos and 24% in Ibadan. The percentage of co-infection in Saki, Logos and Ibadan were 69%, 16% and 14.3% respectively. The high prevalence of coinfection in the two cross-border locations (Saki and Lagos) is suggestive of a high correlation between clinical symptomatic malaria and HIV infection with respect to cross border transmission of the two infections . This paper suggests that government should make provision to establish sentinels for screening immigrants. 
024 8 |a 1597-8036 
024 8 |a Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences 4(1), pp. 10-15 
024 8 |a ui_art_adeoti_urbanization_2008 
024 8 |a http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/936 
245 0 0 |a Urbanization and symptomatic malaria in relation to retroviral screening