Childhood malaria in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Childhood malaria in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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老挝人民民主共和国的儿童疟疾。
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发表时间：
1998
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
T. Pongvongsa
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作者：
O. Anothay;T. Pongvongsa
本文对东南亚疟疾等同于成人疟疾的观点提出了质疑。在老挝人民民主共和国，在东部与越南接壤、西部与泰国接壤的萨凡纳赫特省收集了基于社区的疟疾测量数据。数据表明，该省大部分地区的地方性疟疾是农村和稳定的。在这些很少受到疟疾控制的地区，有大量的儿童疟疾。在疟疾高峰期进行的大规模血液调查中，略多于四分之一的人被检查为寄生虫阳性。与该区域其他研究报告阳性寄生虫血症风险随年龄增长而下降，从而表明免疫力与长期高暴露于疟疾的情况不同，老挝人民民主共和国所研究的社区没有显示预期获得免疫力。因此，有必要对这一问题进行进一步的社区研究。
The idea that malaria in South-East Asia is synonymous with adult malaria is questioned in this paper. In the Lao People's Democratic Republic, community-based malariometric data were collected in Savannakhet Province, which shares borders with Viet Nam in the east and Thailand in the west. The data indicate that endemic malaria is rural and stable in large areas of the province. In these areas, which are rarely subject to malaria control, there is significant childhood malaria. A little more than one-quarter of individuals examined in mass blood surveys carried out in the peak malaria season were parasite-positive. Unlike other studies in the region reporting a declining risk of positive parasitaemia with age, thus suggesting immunity consistent with high and prolonged exposure to malaria, the communities studied in the Lao People's Democratic Republic did not show the expected acquisition of immunity. Further community-based studies on this matter are therefore warranted.