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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Trop. 2007 May 22;102(3):201–205. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.05.001

Table 1.

Percentage distributionof MSP-1 block 2mixed and single alleleinfections ofK1 (K), RO33 (R) and Mad20 (M) and multiplicity of infection (MOI) in the two age groups (<15 and >15 years) in samples from Bindura, Chiredzi and Kariba.

Health Centers Allele(s) MOI ± SEM
M R K R/M K/M K/R K/R/M <15 years > 15 years
Bindura (n=16, 20)* 36 0 0 30 22 0 11 1.9 ± 0.2 1.8 ± 0.1
Chiredzi (n=16, 15) 10 7 7 13 35 0 29 2.2 ± 0.2 2.0 ± 0.2
Kariba (n= 18, 27) 10 15 25 8 25 5 12 2.2 ± 0.2 1.3 ± 0.1**
*

(n = subjects < 15 years, subjects > 15 years)

**

For Kariba samples, mean MOI was higher for patients less than 15 years compared with those above 15 years ( p < 0.05 by the t-test).