Prevalence of Malaria in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Solapur district, Maharashtra.

Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

Kishor V. Ingole, Sapana G. Mundhada, Anu Sharma, Prachala G. Rathod

Malaria is preventable as well as treatable disease still a major public health problem in India.

The present study was aimed to assess the prevalence of malaria infections among patients

with acute undifferentiated fever, presenting to tertiary care center Solapur, Maharashtra

from January 2013 to December 2016. Total 4631 samples were tested with the

RDT ACCUCARE one step malaria Pf/Pv antigen test (LAB–CARE diagnostic PVT.

LTD. India) at Microbiology laboratory following manufacturer’s instructions.

Out of 4631samples, 295(6.37%) were positive for malaria. Plasmodium vivax

was predominant (60.67%) followed by Plasmodium falciparum (30.17%) and mixed

infection by Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum (9.16%). Maximum number

of cases were reported in month of July to November. Males were affected more as

compared to female. Finding in present study will be helpful for formation of different

policy for prevention and control of malaria which will in turn reduce morbidity and

mortality associated with it.