Prevalence of dengue virus infection and malaria parasitemia among febrile patients attending the University of Jos health clinic, Plateau State, Nigeria.

KATNAP, RAMNAN SELVYAT; Nsor, Happiness Ogechi; Dangari, Ahmed Mark; Nkup, Jude Yunzoom; Miri, Nantip; Gwan, Isaac Joseph; Maklu, Yossy; Lar, Patricia Manko; Zakari, Hashimu

doi:10.21608/mid.2024.303154.2067

	Prevalence of dengue virus infection and malaria parasitemia among febrile patients attending the University of Jos health clinic, Plateau State, Nigeria.
Microbes and Infectious Diseases
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 21 September 2024
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/mid.2024.303154.2067
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Authors
RAMNAN SELVYAT KATNAP ¹; Happiness Ogechi Nsor¹; Ahmed Mark Dangari²; Jude Yunzoom Nkup ¹; Nantip Miri³; Isaac Joseph Gwan⁴; Yossy Maklu⁵; Patricia Manko Lar¹; Hashimu Zakari¹
¹Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria
²Department of Microbiology, Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Kasina State, Nigeria
³Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria
⁴Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Computing, Karl Kumm University Vom, Plateau State, Nigeria
⁵Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria
Abstract
Background: Malaria and dengue are mosquitoe –borne diseases important in the tropical and subtropical regions with overlapping epidemiology and symptoms that cannot be differentiated on clinical ground alone. Aim: to detect malaria and dengue among febrile patients attending the University of Jos Health Clinic. Methods: Blood samples were collected from a total of 86 febrile patients; ELISA IgM was employed for the detection of recent or active dengue infection, while malaria parasitamiae was tested by MALARIA ANTIGEN P.F TEST KIT. Results:The study demonstrated a significant higher prevalence of Malaria (72.1%) than dengue (17.4%) at P-value of 0.001. Only 4 (4.7%) out of the 86 participants tested positive for both malaria and dengue. None of the sociodemographic parameters was a determinant of malaria, but socioeconomic status had showed that student and the self-employed have significant higher dengue infection than the employed (P-value 0.036). Presence of stagnant water in the environment and none fumigation of the environment were identified as risk factors of malaria at P-values of 0.040 and 0.006 respectively, on the other hand often travel to rural areas was established as dengue risk factor at P-value of 0.019. Conclusion: overall, the study did not only establish the presence of dengue and malaria among the study subjects, but also demonstrated the evidence of malaria and dengue co-infection which is often considered malaria mono-infection, these findings suggest that routine dengue virus diagnosis among febrile patient in the tropical and subtropical climate should be a priority.
Keywords
dengue virus; febrile patients; malaria; parasitemia; university of Jos


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