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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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Autores principales: Guha, Subhasish Kamal, Biswas, Malabika, Gupta, Bishal, Acharya, Alisha, Halder, Supriya, Saha, Bibhuti, Chatterjee, Moytrey, Kundu, Pratip Kumar, Maji, Ardhendu Kumar
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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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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