SERUM PROTEIN FRACTIONS OF NIGERIANS WITH PLASMODIUM INFECTIONS: ILORIN EXPERIENCE

Abstract

Malaria fever is a very common and often severe disease in the tropical countries like Nigeria. Measurement of serum proteins is simple and widespread in developing countries. Thus this study aimed at evaluating the relationship (if any) between plasmodium infection and serum protein. A total of 80 subjects were used for this study, 40 people with confirmed plasmodium infection, and 40 clinically healthy adults as control subjects. Their height, weight, age and sex were recorded. Their serum total protein and albumin were assayed while the serum globulin was obtained from the difference. We obtained a mean BMI of 20.okg/m2 for the control subjects and 21.63kg/m2 for patients with plasmodium infection. The serum total protein was 71.25g/L and 60.43g/L for the control and malaria patients respectively. With (P
(Af. J. of Clinical and Experimental Microbiology: 2002 3(2): 82-84)