Volume 13, Number 10—October 2007
Dispatch
Malaria Diagnosis and Hospitalization Trends, Brazil
Patricia D. Santos-Ciminera*†
, Donald R. Roberts*, Maria das Gracas C. Alecrim†, Monica R.F. Costa†, and Gerald V. Quinnan*
, Donald R. Roberts*, Maria das Gracas C. Alecrim†, Monica R.F. Costa†, and Gerald V. Quinnan*
Table
Total malaria cases in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, 1980–2006, and malaria case-patients diagnosed and admitted at FMT-AM by parasite, 1989–2006 *
| Year | Amazonas† | FMT–AM |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malaria, all causes | Plasmodium falciparum |
P. vivax |
Other causes‡ |
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| No. case-patients | No. admitted (%) | No. case-patients | No. admitted (%) | No. case-patients | |||||
| 1980 | 4,447 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1981 | 8,169 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1982 | 13,142 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1983 | 10,299 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1984 | 8,528 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1985 | 11,196 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1986 | 15,319 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1987 | 15,233 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1988 | 19,392 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1989 | 34,944 | 4,347 | 1,262 | 264 (20.92) | 3,043 | 26 (0.85) | 42 | ||
| 1990 | 28,479 | 3,037 | 839 | 175 (20.86) | 2,175 | 15 (0.69) | 23 | ||
| 1991 | 45,849 | 5,765 | 664 | 179 (26.96) | 5,076 | 23 (0.45) | 25 | ||
| 1992 | 37,885 | 5,083 | 670 | 118 (17.61) | 4,398 | 29 (0.66) | 15 | ||
| 1993 | 55,364 | 10,157 | 2,834 | 325 (11.47) | 7,284 | 24 (0.33) | 39 | ||
| 1994 | 68,287 | 7,469 | 1,433 | 199 (13.89) | 5,948 | 44 (0.74) | 88 | ||
| 1995 | 52,602 | 5,765 | 1,049 | 174 (16.59) | 4,518 | 30 (0.66) | 198 | ||
| 1996 | 70,044 | 6,206 | 1,333 | 201 (15.08) | 4,686 | 18 (0.38) | 187 | ||
| 1997 | 94,382 | 10,483 | 1,871 | 186 (9.78) | 8,506 | 175 (2.06) | 106 | ||
| 1998 | 114,748 | 10,854 | 1,751 | 217 (12.39) | 9,004 | 116 (1.29) | 99 | ||
| 1999 | 167,722 | 19,967 | 4,459 | 341 (7.65) | 15,238 | 155 (1.02) | 270 | ||
| 2000 | 96,026 | 12,266 | 2,541 | 177 (6.97) | 9,227 | 147 (1.59) | 498 | ||
| 2001 | 48,385 | 4,315 | 813 | 127 (15.62) | 3,443 | 95 (2.76) | 59 | ||
| 2002 | 70,223 | 88,711 | 992 | 106 (10.69) | 7,808 | 263 (3.37) | 71 | ||
| 2003 | 143,343 | 30,017 | 2,213 | 150 (6.78) | 27,679 | 677 (2.45) | 125 | ||
| 2004 | 152,440 | 27,169 | 5,727 | 257 (4.49) | 21,228 | 345 (1.63) | 214 | ||
| 2005 | 229,330 | 31,243 | 8,698 | 264 (3.52) | 22,174 | 378 (1.70) | 371 | ||
| 2006 | 190,378 | 16,182 | 3,363 | 175 (4.31) | 12,672 | 161 (1.27) | 147 | ||
*2005–2006 data obtained at the Malaria Laboratory and Epidemiology Department of the FMT–AM by M.R.F.C. FMT-AM, Fundação de Medicina Tropical do Amazonas; –, data not available.
†Total malaria cases in the state of Amazonas.
‡Includes P. malariae infections and mixed infections (P. falciparum + P. vivax).
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