Epidemiological Study of Malaria in the Neonatal Period Reference Hospital of Sibiti Department of Lekoumou Republic of Coongo Brazzaville

Malaria remains a rare condition in newborns, even in endemic areas, meaning that its search is not too systematic at this age. Our study aims to describe the profile of malaria during the neonatal period. The retrospective descriptive study focused on the files of newborns hospitalized from 12/01/2023 to 06/1/2024, in the pediatrics and neonatology department of the Sibiti reference hospital in the department of lekoumou in Congo Brazzaville. Inclusion criteria were fever, isolated or not, and a positive thick film/blood smear (GE/FS). The exclusion criterion was the positivity of the biological infection assessment. The parameters studied took into account epidemiology, clinical, biology and therapeutics. Results: The prevalence of neonatal malaria was 0.05% (22/398) according to our study. Apart from fever which was an inclusion criterion, pallor was the dominant symptom. Three of our patients had a history of blood transfusion and 2 of these had severe postnatal malaria, with increased parasitemia.