A Study of Anaemia and Malaria Infection among Rural and Urban Children.
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Summary: The association between malarial infection and anaemia was studied in three hundred rural and urban child ren, aged between one and seven years. The incidence of malaria parasitaemia was higher in urban than in rural children. Hepatosplenomegaly occurred more fre quently in children, aged 4 to 6 years, who had malaria parasitaemia associated with anaemia than in those without anaemia. There was no significant relationship between the prevalence of malaria parasitaemia and the haemoglobin genotype although there was some evidence that the sickling gene protects against anaemia in children with malaria and haemoglobin genotype AS.
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