Open AccessA report on incidence of COVID-19 among febrile patients attending a malaria clinic
Author(s) -
Subhasish Kamal Guha,
Minakshi Biswas,
Bishal Gupta,
Alisha Acharya,
Supriya Halder,
Bibhuti Saha,
Moytrey Chatterjee,
Prabir Kumar Kundu,
Ardhendu Kumar Maji
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tropical parasitology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.418
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2229-7758
pISSN - 2229-5070
DOI - 10.4103/tp.tp_105_20
Subject(s) - malaria , medicine , incidence (geometry) , transmission (telecommunications) , plasmodium falciparum , plasmodium vivax , isolation (microbiology) , covid-19 , rapid diagnostic test , virology , immunology , disease , biology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , electrical engineering , microbiology and biotechnology , optics , engineering
Screening for malaria and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in all patients with acute febrile illness is necessary in malaria-endemic areas to reduce malaria-related mortality and to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 by isolation.