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NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE A Field station of the Ministry of Health, Ghana (Member of the INDEPTH Network)
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Location :Navrongo - Ghana
Investigators
:Greg Utz, F. Binka, S. Owusu-Agyei, Kevin Baird,
Kojo Koram, Francis Nkrumah, Steve Hoffman
Collaboration
:Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC)
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research,
Naval Medical Research Unit #3, Naval Medical Research Institute.
Funding :US Navy
Period Covered:04/1996 – 07/1997
This was a longitudinal incidence study to characterize P. falciparum parasitemia and malaria in adults and non-immune children in the Kassena-Nankana district of the Upper East Region of Ghana.
200 adults age 18-55 years in the wet season (April 96 to October 96); 255 children age 6-24 months in the dry season (November 96 to April 97); and 275 children age 6-24 months in the wet season (April 97 to October 97) were enrolled given radical cure and then followed up for first malaria infection.
The adults in the wet season registered a 7.8 incidence density compared with the children who registered 8.3. A significant number of children became febrile with the first parasitemia compared with adults.