Analysis of Hematological Changes and Seroprevalence of Malarial Patients Caused by Plasmodium Vivax Using Statistical Tools

Abstract

Malaria is a febrile illness, caused by malarial plasmodium parasite. It is the most prevalent infectious disease in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world in addition Pakistan is amongst the highly affected countries regarding infectivity rate of malaria. The main objective of the current research was to analyzed haematological changes and seroprevalence of malaria infection in patients caused by Plasmodium vivax. The study was conducted at Katlang Diagnostic Centre Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A total of 188 patients having malaria disease were enrolled, in which frequency of male patients were 122 (64.9%) while frequency of female patients was 66 (35.1%). Results indicated that there was no association between gender and BT Ring condition, because the value of chi-square (0.215) was greater than p value (0.5). Similarly, the value of chi-square (0.540) was greater than p value (0.05), which showed that there was no association between gender and B Trophozoite condition. Analysis also showed that there was close association between BT Ring and B Trophozoite condition with each other, because the value of chi-square is (0.000) which is less than p value (0.05). The present study concludes that there is a close association between BT Ring and B Trophozoite conditions.