Abstract:
This research was carried out to investigate the co- infection of malaria and typhoid
fever among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at Primary Health Care centre (PHC),
Oto-Awori LCDA in Ojo Local Government, Lagos. A total number of 170 blood samples of
pregnant women were examined for the presence of malaria parasite and typhoid fever using
standard methods and were thereafter compared with equal number of non pregnant women
(170). The results showed that total number of 112 had malaria while 114 pregnant women
tested positive to typhoid. From 170 pregnant women studied, the age group 16-25 years
made up of 34 women (20.0 %), of which 7 had malaria only (12.2 %), 5 women had typhoid
only (14.3 %), 18 women had both malaria and typhoid (22.8 %). Between 26-35 years age
group which form 113 women (65.50 %), 23 had malaria only (69.7 %), 27 of the women had
typhoid only (77.1 %), 50 of the women had malaria and typhoid (63.3 %). Whereas between
36-45 year age group which formed total 23 (13.5 %), malaria only and typhoid only
recorded 3 positive value each with 9.1 % and 8.6 % respectively, while women with
co-infection of both malaria and typhoid had 11 positive (13.9 %) and 6 women (26.1 %) in
this group had neither malaria nor typhoid. The relationship between trimester and
co-infection of malaria and typhoid among pregnant women, second (2nd) trimester recorded
highest prevalence which made up of 107 women, 18 (54.5 %) were noted to have malaria
only, 27 (77.1 %); typhoid only, 50 women were positive to both malaria and typhoid
infections. However, highest co-infection of malaria and typhoid fever among 170 pregnant
women, was observed in gravidal 2 in which 17 women (51.5 %) had malaria only, 11 women
(31.4 %) had typhoid only, 20 women (25.3 %) had both malaria and typhoid, which total 48.
In this study, it is evident that presumptive test of malaria and typhoid fever revealed the
prevalence of the infections among the pregnant women.
