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Malaria prevalence in Mangaluru city area in the southwestern coastal region of India

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, December 2017
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Title
Malaria prevalence in Mangaluru city area in the southwestern coastal region of India
Published in
Malaria Journal, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12936-017-2141-0
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Kiran K. Dayanand, Kishore Punnath, Valleesha Chandrashekar, Rajeshwara N. Achur, Srinivas B. Kakkilaya, Susanta K. Ghosh, Suchetha Kumari, D. Channe Gowda

Abstract

Malaria is highly prevalent in many parts of India and the Indian subcontinent. Mangaluru, a city in the southwest coastal region of Karnataka state in India, and surrounding areas are malaria endemic with 10-12 annual parasite index. Despite high endemicity, to-date, very little has been reported on the epidemiology and burden of malaria in this area. A cross-sectional surveillance of malaria cases was performed among 900 febrile symptomatic native people (long-time residents) and immigrant labourers (temporary residents) living in Mangaluru city area. During each of dry, rainy, and end of rainy season, blood samples from a group of 300 randomly selected symptomatic people were screened for malaria infection. Data on socio-demographic, literacy, knowledge of malaria, and treatment-seeking behaviour were collected to understand the socio-demographic contributions to malaria menace in this region. Malaria is prevalent in Mangaluru region throughout the year and Plasmodium vivax is predominant species compared to Plasmodium falciparum. The infection frequency was found to be high during rainy season. Infections were markedly higher in males than females, and in adults aged 16-45 years than both younger and older age groups. Also, malaria incidence was high among immigrants compared to native population. In both groups, infection rate was directly correlated with their literacy level, knowledge on malaria, dwelling environment, and protective measures used. There was also a significant difference in treatment-seeking behaviour between these two groups. Malaria incidences in Mangaluru region are predominantly localized to certain hotspot areas within the city, where socioeconomically underprivileged and immigrant labourers are densely populated. These areas have inadequate sanitation and constant water stagnation, harbouring high vector density and contributing to high infection incidences. Additionally, people in these areas seldom practice preventive measures such as using bed nets. The high incidences of malaria in adults are due to minimal cloth wearing, and long working hours stretching to late evenings in places with high vector density. Instituting heightened preventive public measures by governments and creating awareness on using preventive protective and environmental hygienic measures through educational programmes may substantially reduce the risk of contracting infections in these areas and spreading to other areas.

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Unknown 120 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 15%
Researcher 16 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 13%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Other 5 4%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 42 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 3%
Other 27 23%
Unknown 46 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 10 August 2022.
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#7,651,391
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#2,177
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#144,993
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Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#49
of 116 outputs
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