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| Title: | Short report: assessing the impact of indoor residual spraying on malaria morbidity using a sentinel site surveillance system in Western Uganda |
| Authors: | Bukirwa, Hasifa
Yau, Vincent
Kigozi, Ruth
Filler, Scott
Quick, Linda
Lugemwa, Myers
Dissanayake, Gunawardena
Kamya, Moses
Wabwire-Mangen, Fred
Dorsey, Grant |
| Keywords: | Malaria
Indoor residual spraying (IRS)
Lambda-cyhalothrin
Health facility
Blood smears
Malaria control
Morbidity
Uganda |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene |
| Citation: | Bukirwa, H., Yau, V., Kigozi, R., Filler, S., Quick, L., Lugemwa, M., Dissanayake, G., Kamya, M.R., Wabwire-Mangen, F., Dorsey, G. (2009). Short report: assessing the impact of indoor residual spraying on malaria morbidity using a sentinel site surveillance system in Western Uganda. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 81(4) |
| Abstract: | A single round of indoor residual spraying (IRS) using lambda-cyhalothrin was implemented in a district of Uganda with moderate transmission intensity in 2007. Individual patient data were collected from one health facility within the district 8 months before and 16 months after IRS. There was a consistent decrease in the proportion of patients diagnosed with clinical malaria after IRS for patients <5 and >5 years of age (52% versus 26%, P <0.001 and 36% versus 23%, P <0.001, respectively). There was a large decrease in the proportion of positive blood smears in the first 4 months after IRS for patients <5 (47% versus 14%, P <0.001) and >5 (26% versus 9%, P <0.001) years of age, but this effect waned over the subsequent 12 months. IRS was effective in reducing malaria morbidity, but this was not sustained beyond 1 year for the proportion of blood smears read as positive. |
| URI: | doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0126
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1644 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9637 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Articles (Health-Sciences)
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