Abstract
Present study was carried out in local population of Barikot, District Swat for incidence of malarial disease. For this purpose a total of 997 individuals were screened for malarial test in the study area and divided into four category of age i.e. (1-15), (16-30), (31-45), (46-onward), gender wise, union council (Kota, Barikot, Shamozo and Ghalegi) and month wise. It was concluded that out of 997 samples, 204 (20.46%) were found positive, in which
mostly under positive, under 15 year of age (23.36%), whereas less cases were recorded in adult (46 and above) 22.64. Most of the positive cases were found in the month of November, 24 out of 67 (35.82%) and less cases were noted in the month of May which are 12 out of 106
(11.32%). Incidence of the cases were found in U.C Kota with 60 positive (26.08%) out of 230 blood samples and low prevalence in U.C Ghalaigai with 42 positive (13.12%) out of 320 samples. Gender wise prevalence of malaria disease shows male 106 (27.53%) out of 385
whereas female 98 (16.01%) out of 612.
Muzafar Shah, Mazhar Al, Sardar Azhar Mehmood, Shabir Ahmad, Khushi Muhammad, Israr Alam, Kausar Saeed. (2018) A Report on Incidence of Malarial Disease in Local Population of Barikot, Swat, Punjab University Journal of Zoology, Volume 33, Issue 1.
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