Table 1.
Microscopy and PCR results, January 2009 to November 2011
| |
PCR |
||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microscopy | Pf | Pv | Pk | Pv/Pk | Pf/Pk | Pf/Pv/Pk | Pm/Pk | Pf/Pm | Pv/Pm/Pk | P.genus | negative | Not done | Total |
|
Pf |
10 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
60 |
76 |
|
Pv |
0 |
9 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
34 |
53 |
|
Pm |
3 |
11 |
306 |
18 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
18 |
7 |
57 |
429 |
|
Pm/Pv |
3 |
12 |
10 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
7 |
47 |
|
Pf/Pm |
7 |
0 |
22 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
40 |
|
Pf/Pv |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
7 |
|
Pf/Pv/Pm |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Total | 24 | 34 | 345 | 36 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 10 | 168 | 653 |
*Blood slides with parasites resembling P. malariae were sometimes reported as “Pm/Pk” or “Pm(?Pk)” but for simplicity are all referred to here as “Pm”.Abbreviations: Pf=P. falciparum, Pv=P. vivax, Pm=P. malariae, Pk=P. knowlesi.