Epidemiology and Clinical Burden of Malaria in District Nushki, Balochistan, Pakistan

Abstract

Female anopheles’ parasite of plasmodium genus is responsible for malaria and it is serious health hazard throughout the world. From March 2019 to March 2020, this research was shown to estimate the Epidemiology and clinical burden of malarial infection in Nushki district. 17 Areas were visited and 2697 blood slides were taken, out of 2697, 162 were positive. However, the most common plasmodium species was P. vivax with high occurrence levels (85.8%) than P. falciparum (14.1%) and mixed infection was (0%). The data was analyzed statistically to check any sort of correlation between gender and types of malaria infection. The occurrence of malarial disease was comparatively high in males (63.5%) as compared to females (36.4%)