ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2019
Oasis Malaria, Northern Mauritania
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- Malaria prevalence in Mauritania: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Malaria journal · 2023Pooled it
- Rapid diagnostic tests for Plasmodium vivax malaria in endemic countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Amplicon-based DNA sequencing to characterize Duffy antigen polymorphisms and analysis of Duffy blood system and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Mauritania.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Performance of a Commercial Multiplex Allele-Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction Kit to Genotype African-Type Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Changing epidemiology of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Nouakchott, Mauritania: a six-year (2015-2020) prospective study.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- Molecular Epidemiology of G6PD Genotypes in Different Ethnic Groups Residing in Saharan and Sahelian Zones of Mauritania.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Clinical Features and Mortality Associated with Severe Malaria in Adults in Southern Mauritania.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2020Article
- Multi-locus genotyping reveals established endemicity of a geographically distinct Plasmodium vivax population in Mauritania, West Africa.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
- The hidden costs of desert development.Ambio · 2020Article
- Malaria epidemiology in Kobeni department, southeastern Mauritania from 2015 to 2017.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2020Article
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Abstract
A malaria survey was conducted in Atar, the northernmost oasis city in Mauritania, during 2015-2016. All febrile patients in whom malaria was suspected were screened for malaria by using rapid diagnostic testing and microscopic examination of blood smears and later confirmed by PCR. Of 453 suspected malaria cases, 108 (23.8%) were positive by rapid diagnostic testing, 154 (34.0%) by microscopic examination, and 162 (35.7%) by PCR. Malaria cases were observed throughout the year and among all age groups. Plasmodium vivax was present in 120/162 (74.1%) cases, P. falciparum in 4/162 (2.4%), and mixed P. falciparum-P. vivax in 38/162 (23.4%). Malaria is endemic in northern Mauritania and could be spreading farther north in the Sahara, possibly because of human-driven environmental changes. Further entomologic and parasitologic studies and monitoring are needed to relate these findings to major Anopheles mosquito vectors and to design and implement strategies for malaria prevention and control.
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