Rokhsaneh Raisi - Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran.
Mohammad Haddadi - Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran.

Malaria threatens more than 40% of people worldwide. In Iran there is 20 to 30 thousand annual incidence of the disease. Malaria outbreak is high in southern east provinces. In the present study, medical records of malaria patients that have been registered in medical care centers of Nikshahr and 26 surrounding villages during 2011 to 2014 have been investigated following taking legal permissions issued by head of the malaria research center. The undertaken factors include No. of collected samples in each season of year, No. of positive samples, parasite type, and also age, sex, nationality, residency and administered medicines for each affected individual. Total No. of 6251 taken samples including 94 positive sample were analyzed. The maximum No. of positive (disease carrying) samples was belonging to Nikshahr. Among these patients, 16 individual had Afghani nationality and 6 persons were Pakistani. Most of the patients were male and belong to > 15 year age group. Vivax was the most prominent parasite and present medications could successfully control the disease. Minimum positive samples were collected from Posht-e Ghale, Zirakabad and Roog villages where in water scarcity and increase in dry land areas might play an important role to ameliorate disease outbreak.

Malaria; Plasmodium vivax; Nikshahr