Child morbidity and mortality due to cerebral malaria in Brazzaville, Congo. A retrospective and prospective hospital-based study 1983-1989.

This study was conducted in all four hospitals of Brazzaville, the capital of the Congo in order to assess the trend in malaria morbidity, the frequency of cerebral malaria and the related mortality between 1983 and 1989 in Brazzaville children. For the period 1983 to 1987 the study was retrospective, based on records. For the period 1988 and 1989 a prospective study was carried out in the two main hospitals in which a system for reporting cases of cerebral malaria was set up.

[Malaria attack: a difficult diagnosis in a region of high Plasmodium falciparum endemicity].

The diagnosis of malaria attack in regions for highly endemic P. falciparum is difficult. It is more so since the wide use of antimalarials by the infected populations and the spread of drug resistance.