A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DIFFERENT DIAGNOSTICS OF DETECTING MALARIA AND TYPHOID FEVER

CHARITY NDIDI OBUM-NNADI; DENNIS AMAECHI; CHRISTY CHINYERE FREDRICK; NDUBUISI JOHN CHIMA; ADEBARI FAVOUR TOLULOPE; CHIKA MUAREEN EZENWA

doi:10.56557/jodagh/2022/v15i38060

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DIFFERENT DIAGNOSTICS OF DETECTING MALARIA AND TYPHOID FEVER

CHARITY NDIDI OBUM-NNADI

DENNIS AMAECHI

CHRISTY CHINYERE FREDRICK

NDUBUISI JOHN CHIMA

ADEBARI FAVOUR TOLULOPE

CHIKA MUAREEN EZENWA

Journal of Disease and Global Health, Page 48-53
DOI: 10.56557/jodagh/2022/v15i38060
Published: 31 December 2022

Abstract

Aim: The study is aimed at comparing the different method of diagnosing plasmodium parasite and typhoid fever and also to know the most effective method of diagnosis.

Methods: The different diagnostic method of analyzing malaria and typhoid were compared by using blood and stool samples of patients from Angwan Rogo community FCT, Abuja. The diagnostic method used for the analysis of malaria were Rapid diagnostic test kit (RDT) and microscopy diagnostic method, which are Field stain and Giemsa stain. The positivity rate of RDT was (12%), Field stain (88%) and Giemsa stain (94%). Typhoid fever was diagnosed using widal test and stool culture test. The results showed that age group 1-10 had the highest malaria prevalence of 70% followed by age group 21-30 with prevalence of 10%. The positive result for typhoid fever widal test is 63.3% while for stool culture is 90%.

Conclusion: The result of the study shows that children are more prevalent to malaria. Therefore, laboratory personnels should not depend solely on widal test, but rather they should employ other diagnostic method such as stool culture which can differentiate salmonella infections from other infections for more diagnostic test result.

In diagnosis of analysing malaria and typhoid, microscopy and stool culture are more accurate and reliable.

Keywords:

Malaria
prevalence
typhoid fever
diagnostics
widal test

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OBUM-NNADI, C. N., AMAECHI, D., FREDRICK, C. C., CHIMA, N. J., TOLULOPE, A. F., & EZENWA, C. M. (2022). A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DIFFERENT DIAGNOSTICS OF DETECTING MALARIA AND TYPHOID FEVER. Journal of Disease and Global Health, 15(3), 48-53. https://doi.org/10.56557/jodagh/2022/v15i38060

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