Table 3.
Prevalence (%) of Plasmodium infection among individuals presenting with symptoms consistent with malaria, by province and city
| Prevalence* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Province |
City |
Suspected cases |
P. vivax |
P. falciparum |
Mixed species |
All species |
|
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
|
234 (7.7%) |
65 (2.2%) |
26 (1%) |
325 (10.8%) |
|
| |
Bannu |
895 |
7.7% |
3.2% |
1.1% |
12.1% |
| |
Hangu |
445 |
6.7% |
3.1% |
1.1% |
11.0% |
| |
Peshawar |
720 |
6.0% |
0.4% |
0.1% |
6.5% |
| |
Thall |
950 |
9.7% |
2.0% |
1.1% |
12.7% |
|
Punjab |
|
|
114 (2.4%) |
35 (0.7%) |
8 (0.2%) |
157 (3.3%) |
| |
Bhakkar |
650 |
5.4% |
0.2% |
0.0% |
5.5% |
| |
Lahore |
980 |
1.6% |
0.0% |
0.1% |
1.7% |
| |
Mainwali |
1,205 |
2.6% |
2.0% |
0.3% |
4.9% |
| |
Muzaffarghar |
688 |
1.2% |
1.5% |
0.4% |
3.1% |
| |
Rawalpindi |
1,250 |
1.9% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
1.9% |
|
Balochistan |
|
|
49 (7.4%) |
25 (3.8%) |
8 (1.2%) |
82(12.4%) |
| |
Quetta |
280 |
1.1% |
7.9% |
1.4% |
10.4% |
| |
Zhob |
380 |
12.1% |
0.8% |
1.1% |
13.9% |
|
Sindh |
|
|
58 (10.8%) |
1 (0.2%) |
1 (0.2%) |
60 (11.1%) |
| |
Hyderabad |
239 |
12.1% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
12.1% |
| |
Karachi |
300 |
9.7% |
0.3% |
0.3% |
10.3% |
|
Capital |
|
|
81 (4.5%) |
2 (0.1%) |
0 (0.0%) |
83 (4.6%) |
| |
Islamabad |
1,800 |
4.5% |
0.1% |
0.0% |
4.6% |
| All | 10,782 | 5.0% | 1.2% | 0.4% | 6.6% | |
*Prevalence was calculated by dividing the number of PCR-positive cases by the number of suspected cases.