JOURNAL OF LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

PREVALENCE OF MALARIAL PARASITES IN TEHSIL MANDANR, DISTRICT BUNER KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA

Gurmeet Singh*, Israr Alam, Bilal Ahmad, Fazal Amin, Sultan Zeb, Ajeet Singh, Sajidur Rahman, Asad Khan, Muhammad Perviz, Kashif Khan

Abstract-

Present study was carried out in local population of Tehsil Mandanr, District Buner for incidence of Malarial parasite and a total of 2308 suspected cases were screened for Malarial parasite during September 2019 to August 2020 and divided into age wise, gender wise, specie wise, season wise and month wise distribution. Under a microscope, thick and thin smears were made and examined. Out of 2308, 165 were found positive for Malarial parasite in which 158 out of 2308 (6.84%) were P. vivax and 7 out of 2308 (0.30%) were P. falciparum whereas 2143 were found negative. However, 73 males out of 1090 (6.69%) were positive while 92 out of 1218 (7.55%) female were positive. Malarial parasite was high during Autumn and Summer season i.e. (87.63%) and (85.96%) respectively whereas Winter season shows low prevalence i.e. (39.35%) and Spring shows moderate i.e. (70.37%). November has high positive cases for Malarial parasite i.e. 36 while March has less positive cases i.e. 3. No positive case for mixed specie was found. Whereas 16-30 years of age shows high positive cases i.e. 86 while 46- > has less positive cases i.e. 19.

Index Terms- Malaria, Anopheles, Plasmodium, Mandanr, Buner.