Epidemiology of Malaria in Jahrom County, South of Iran 2006-2017

Malaria is one of the most important health problems in many countries. The purpose of this study was to investigate the epidemiology of malaria in Jahrom in south of Fars province, Iran.

This analytical-descriptive study were used epidemiological data of all patients. The Annual Blood Examination Rate (ABER), Slide Positivity Rate (SPR), and Annual Parasite Incidence (API) indices were calculated and analyzed at two descriptive and inferential statistics levels.

A total of 156 malaria patients, all of whom were male. The mean age of studied population was 25.9 ± 9.9 years. Plasmodium vivax was the high prevalent parasite (93.6%),5.8%of patients with Plasmodium falciparum parasite and 0.6%Both species were infected with the parasite. The most Incidence of parasites of Malaria was seen in 2008(0.116In 100 thousand people)and The lowest was in year 2015(0.008In 100 thousand people). Also 78.9% of patients were citizens of Pakistan and Afghanistan and 21.1% were Iranians. 72.4% of cases were "imported" in terms of epidemiological classification. The Annual Blood Examination Rate (ABER) and Annual Parasite Incidence (API)during these years have a decreasing trend with the highest incidence of disease in spring(41.02%)and 57.7% of cases detected in the public sector,no deaths from the disease were reported.

According to the movement of illegal foreign nationals in this city due to the existence of palm and citrus orchards and also considering the presence of vector mosquitoes, disease care programs should continue in this area.