Table 2.

Merozoite surface protein (msp)-1 and msp-2 polymorphism in isolates from 52 Gabonese children presenting with a Plasmodium falciparum malaria attack, 2000.

	msp-1			msp-2
	K1	MAD20	R033	FC27	3D7	Total
Number of distinct bands	14	8	3	11	8	44
Number (%) of samples containing alleles of the corresponding family	47 (90.4)	33 (63.5)	19 (36.5)	34 (65.4)	43 (82.7)
% of fragments assigned to the corresponding family	52.5	32.5	15.0	49.7	50.3
MOI* (± SE)	1.6 (± 0.1)	1.0 (± 0.1)	0.5 (± 0.1)	1.8 (± 0.2)	1.8 (± 0.2)	4.0 (± 0.3)

* Multiplicity of infection