Malaria parasite density in pregnant women of district Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

Twenty-two cases (nineteen Plasmodium falciparum and three P. vivax) of severe malaria among 200 pregnant women from District Jabalpur, M.P. were studied for malaria parasite density. Almost all of them were found anaemic. The patients were treated with quinine/chloroquine intravenously but seventeen Pf cases died within 96 h of admission in hospital. Out of twenty-two, thirteen were primigravidae.