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Perennial transmission of malaria in the low altitude areas of Baringo County, Kenya

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Title
Perennial transmission of malaria in the low altitude areas of Baringo County, Kenya
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Malaria Journal, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12936-017-1904-y
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Collince J. Omondi, Daniel Onguru, Lucy Kamau, Mark Nanyingi, George Ong’amo, Benson Estambale

Abstract

Malaria causes the greatest public health burden in sub-Saharan Africa where high mortality occurs mainly in children under 5 years of age. Traditionally, malaria has been reported mainly in the lowlands endemic regions of western Kenya, while the highlands of the Rift Valley have been relatively free except for the sporadic epidemics in some areas. Baringo County is located in the Kenyan highlands. The county generally experiences seasonal transmission of malaria. A few hotspots which experience continuous malaria transmission in the county do however exist. The objective of this study was to assess malaria infection status and identify areas with continuous transmissions with a view to mapping out probable transmission hot spots useful in mounting focused interventions within the county. Systematic sampling was employed to identify 1668 primary school pupils from fifteen primary schools located in 4 ecological zones (lowland, midland, highland and riverine) of three sub-counties of Baringo. Finger prick blood sampling was done every 4 months (during the dry season in February/March, after the long rains in June/July and short rains in November 2015). Malaria occurrence was tested using rapid diagnostic test kit (CareStart HRP-2 Pf). Microscopic examination was done on all RDT positive and 10% of negative cases. A total of 268 (16.1%), out of 1668 pupils tested positive for Plasmodium falciparum by RDT; 78% had a single episode, 16.8% had 2 episodes, 4.9% had 3 episodes and 0.4% had 4 episodes. The riverine zone had the highest malaria cases (23.2%) followed by lowlands (0.9%). No malaria cases were detected in the midland zone while highland zone recorded only few cases during the third follow up. Up to 10.7% of malaria cases were reported in the dry season, 2.9% during the long rains and 5.7% in short rains season. Malaria infection was prevalent in Baringo County and was mainly restricted to the riverine zone where transmission is continuous throughout the year. High malaria prevalence occurred in the dry season compared to the wet season. Even though malaria transmission is relatively low compared to endemic regions of Kenya, there is a need for continued monitoring of transmission dynamics under changing climatic conditions as well as establishing expanded malaria control strategies especially within the riverine zone which would include an integrated mosquito control and chemotherapy for infected individuals.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 24%
Researcher 12 16%
Student > Bachelor 9 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 16 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 7%
Social Sciences 5 7%
Other 15 20%
Unknown 18 24%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 July 2018.
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#3,049,348
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#666
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#54,421
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Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#24
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