Risk factors for malaria: a microepidemiological study in a village in Sri Lanka.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
; 92(3): 265-9, 1998.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9861392
ABSTRACT
Environmental and socioeconomic risk factors for malaria were studied in a village in Sri Lanka. Over a period of one year, all 49 households in the village were visited every alternate day to obtain information on malaria episodes. Information on risk factors was obtained through questionnaires and direct observations. Age below 17 years (relative risk [RR] = 1.66, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] 1.18-2.35), use of bed nets (RR = 0.16, 95% CI 0.05-0.45) and traditional fumigants (RR = 0.58, 95% CI 0.37-0.93) were independent predictors of malaria. People using anti-mosquito pyrethrum coils had a higher risk for malaria than people living in houses where they were not used (RR = 1.46, 95% CI 1.03-2.07). The build-up of Anopheles culicifacies populations before the start of the transmission season had taken place in a stream near the village. Living close to the stream was a risk factor for malaria early in the transmission season, although this did not reach statistical significance (comparing < 250 m with > 500 m, RR = 2.13, 95% CI 0.96-4.71).
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Malaria, Vivax
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Malaria, Falciparum
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Animals
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Year:
1998
Type:
Article