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Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis among children in Gadarif hospital, eastern Sudan

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Title
Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis among children in Gadarif hospital, eastern Sudan
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BMC Public Health, December 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3875-2
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Mohammed Ahmed A. Ahmed, Ahmed A. Ahmed, Saeed M. Omar, Gamal K. Adam, Tajeldin M. Abdallah, AbdelAziem A. Ali

Abstract

Since 1900s, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has been among the most important health problems in Sudan, particularly in the endemic areas such as eastern and central regions. This was a cross sectional, hospital-based study conducted from 1(st) January 2015 to 31(st) December 2015 to investigate the epidemiological factors of VL in Gadarif hospital, eastern Sudan. During the study period there were 47 identified children with VL among 145 suspected cases. The most common clinical presentations were fever (47, 100%), pallor (47, 100%), weight loss (40, 85.1%), splenomegaly (37, 78.7%), lymphadenopathy (33, 70.2%), vomiting (32, 68%) cough (28, 59%), loss of appetite (22, 46.8%), diarrhoea (17, 36.1%) and jaundice (5, 10.6%). With regard to the outcome after short term follow up 37 patients (78.8%) improved without complications, while 3 (6.4%, 2 (4.3%), 2 (4.3%), 1 (2.1%), 1 (2.1%) and 1 (2.1%) developed pneumonia, otitis media, septicaemia, urinary tract infection, parasitic infestation and PKDL respectively. Lower mean of haemoglobin level was observed among the VL cases in comparison with the suspected cases (in whom VL was excluded) haemoglobin level {8.9 (3.1) Vs 11 (6.3), P = 0.021}. Again more proportion of anaemic (47 (100%) Vs 14 (14.2%), P = 0.000) and severely anaemic (23 (48.9%) Vs 2 (2%), P = 0.006) patients was detected among the infected children. Using logistic regression analyses there was significant association between rural residence (CI = 1.5-24, OR = 19.1, P = 0.023), male gender (CI = 6.6-18.7, OR = 6.4, P = 0.001) and VL among children. While there is an advance in prevention and management of visceral leishmaniasis our results indicate that VL is still a public health problem with its severe complications among children in eastern Sudan.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 14%
Student > Master 8 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 10%
Student > Postgraduate 6 8%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 22 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 11%
Social Sciences 5 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 7%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 25 35%
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