Table 2.
Prevalence of Plasmodium sp. and individualised by species in each village. Percentage of samples with parasitaemia level under 100 p/μl. Percentage of typed P. falciparum positives samples, number of alleles found for MSP-1 and MSP-2 and MOI by populations.
| Sacriba | Bareso | Ureka | |
| Prevalence range | 70–82% | 43–70% | 48–60% |
| Prevalence January 1998 | |||
| Microscopy | 72% | 47% | 54% |
| PCR | |||
| Plasmodium sp. | 77% | 74% | 65% |
| P.falciparum | 67% | 63% | 62% |
| P.malariae | 31% | 23% | 10% |
| P.ovale | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| P.vivax | 3% | 0% | 0% |
| Negatives | 22% | 26% | 35% |
| Samples Micro. <100 p/μl | 31% | 44% | 43% |
| Samples PCR. <100 p/μl | 36% | 65% | 53% |
| Typed samples | 79% | 55% | 66% |
| MSP-1 alleles | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| MSP-2 alleles | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| MOI | 1–5 | 1–4 | 1–4 |