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Research Article
Vol. 28, Issue 1
ANTIGENIC CROSS REACTION BETWEEN MALARIA PARASITES AND TYPHOID ORGANISMS IN PATIENTS WITH FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN IN OWERRI MUNICIPAL IMO STATE
This study reports result of malaria parasite test, Widal test and bacteriological test was carried out on 205 samples. Of these, 160 were cases of patients presenting malaria-like symptoms while 45 were healthy controls. Out of the 160 patients studied, 117(73.1%) had acute malaria, while 18(40%) out of the 45 control sample were malaria parasi...
