A detailed asssessment of severe malaria and severe non malarial illness in Papua New Guinean Children.

对巴布亚新几内亚儿童严重疟疾和严重非疟疾疾病的详细评估。

• 批准号: nhmrc : 572741
• 负责人: Dr Laurens Manning
• 金额: $ 2.61万
• 依托单位: The University of Western Australia
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarships
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://researchdata.edu.au/detailed-asssessment-severe-guinean-children/116211
• 关键词: detailed; asssessment; severe; malaria; non

PNG has the highest infant and childhood mortality in the Pacific with malaria accounting for 15% of infant mortality. Diagnosing and investigating malaria in this setting is hard because the symptoms are similar to other diseases. We aim to accurately describe clinical and laboratory features and risk factors for malaria, severe non malarial disease and mortality. We are investigating an outbreak of unexplained encephalitis as well.

巴布亚新几内亚是太平洋地区婴儿和儿童死亡率最高的国家，疟疾占婴儿死亡率的15%。在这种情况下诊断和调查疟疾很困难，因为其症状与其他疾病相似。我们的目标是准确描述疟疾、严重非疟疾和死亡率的临床和实验室特征和风险因素。我们还在调查一起不明原因脑炎的爆发。