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A report on incidence of COVID-19 among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic
CONTEXT: Screening for malaria and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in all patients with acute febrile illness is necessary in malaria-endemic areas to reduce malaria-related mortality and to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 by isolation. AIMS: A pilot study was undertaken to determine the inciden...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8213116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34195059 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_105_20 |
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author | Guha, Subhasish Kamal Biswas, Malabika Gupta, Bishal Acharya, Alisha Halder, Supriya Saha, Bibhuti Chatterjee, Moytrey Kundu, Pratip Kumar Maji, Ardhendu Kumar |
author_facet | Guha, Subhasish Kamal Biswas, Malabika Gupta, Bishal Acharya, Alisha Halder, Supriya Saha, Bibhuti Chatterjee, Moytrey Kundu, Pratip Kumar Maji, Ardhendu Kumar |
author_sort | Guha, Subhasish Kamal |
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description | CONTEXT: Screening for malaria and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in all patients with acute febrile illness is necessary in malaria-endemic areas to reduce malaria-related mortality and to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 by isolation. AIMS: A pilot study was undertaken to determine the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: All patients were tested for malaria parasite by examining thick and thin blood smears as well as by rapid malaria antigen tests. COVID-19 was detected by rapid antigen test and reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction in patients agreeing to undergo the test. RESULTS: Out of 262 patients examined, 66 (25.19%) were positive for Plasmodium vivax, 45 (17.17%) for Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) with a slide positivity rate of 42.40%, and Pf% of 40.50%. Only 29 patients consented for COVID-19 testing along with malaria; of them, 3 (10.34%) were positive for COVID-19 alone and 2 (6.89%) were positive for both COVID-19 and P. vivax with an incidence of 17.24%. A maximum number of patients (196) did not examine for COVID-19 as they did not agree to do the test. CONCLUSION: Diagnosis of COVID-19 among three patients (10.34%) is significant both in terms of identification of cases and to isolate them for preventing transmission in the community. Detection of COVID-19 along with malaria is equally important for their proper management. |
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spelling | pubmed-82131162021-06-29 A report on incidence of COVID-19 among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic Guha, Subhasish Kamal Biswas, Malabika Gupta, Bishal Acharya, Alisha Halder, Supriya Saha, Bibhuti Chatterjee, Moytrey Kundu, Pratip Kumar Maji, Ardhendu Kumar Trop Parasitol Original Article CONTEXT: Screening for malaria and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in all patients with acute febrile illness is necessary in malaria-endemic areas to reduce malaria-related mortality and to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 by isolation. AIMS: A pilot study was undertaken to determine the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: All patients were tested for malaria parasite by examining thick and thin blood smears as well as by rapid malaria antigen tests. COVID-19 was detected by rapid antigen test and reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction in patients agreeing to undergo the test. RESULTS: Out of 262 patients examined, 66 (25.19%) were positive for Plasmodium vivax, 45 (17.17%) for Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) with a slide positivity rate of 42.40%, and Pf% of 40.50%. Only 29 patients consented for COVID-19 testing along with malaria; of them, 3 (10.34%) were positive for COVID-19 alone and 2 (6.89%) were positive for both COVID-19 and P. vivax with an incidence of 17.24%. A maximum number of patients (196) did not examine for COVID-19 as they did not agree to do the test. CONCLUSION: Diagnosis of COVID-19 among three patients (10.34%) is significant both in terms of identification of cases and to isolate them for preventing transmission in the community. Detection of COVID-19 along with malaria is equally important for their proper management. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021 2021-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8213116/ /pubmed/34195059 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_105_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Tropical Parasitology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Guha, Subhasish Kamal Biswas, Malabika Gupta, Bishal Acharya, Alisha Halder, Supriya Saha, Bibhuti Chatterjee, Moytrey Kundu, Pratip Kumar Maji, Ardhendu Kumar A report on incidence of COVID-19 among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic |
title | A report on incidence of COVID-19 among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic |
title_full | A report on incidence of COVID-19 among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic |
title_fullStr | A report on incidence of COVID-19 among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic |
title_full_unstemmed | A report on incidence of COVID-19 among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic |
title_short | A report on incidence of COVID-19 among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic |
title_sort | report on incidence of covid-19 among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8213116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34195059 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_105_20 |
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