PREVALENCE OF MALARIA AND TYPHOID CO-INFECTION IN PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING POLICE COTTAGE HOSPITAL MAKURDI.
Abstract
ABSTRACT Malaria and typhoid fever are both endemic in the tropies and pregnant women constitune one of the high risk groups. The objective is to determine the rate of malaria-typhoid co infection in pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at Police cottage hospital Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. A study of malaria infection and typhoid fever on the pregnant women attending Police cottage hospital and its haematological parameters was carried out between Ferbuary and March, 2023 in Makurdi. Blood samples were collected and examined for malaria and typhoid using widal agglutination method and P falciparium antigens rapid test device respectively. Of the 200 sampled, 16(8%) were infected with malaria parasite while 77 (38.5%) were infected with typhoid, 9(4.5%) had the malaria typhoid co-infection. More co-infection 7(10.6%) was recorded among primigravidae than the multigravidae 2 (2.2%) these differences were statistically significant (P
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