Table 4.
Number of samples PCR-positive for Plasmodium infection, by province and city
| |
|
PCR positive samples* |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Province | City | P. vivax | P. falciparum | Mixed species |
|
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
234 (72%) |
65 (20%) |
26 (8%) |
|
| |
Bannu |
69 |
29 |
10 |
| |
Hangu |
30 |
14 |
5 |
| |
Peshawar |
43 |
3 |
1 |
| |
Thall |
92 |
19 |
10 |
|
Punjab |
|
114 (73%) |
35 (22%) |
8 (5%) |
| |
Bhakkar |
35 |
1 |
0 |
| |
Lahore |
16 |
0 |
1 |
| |
Mainwali |
31 |
24 |
4 |
| |
Muzaffarghar |
8 |
10 |
3 |
| |
Rawalpindi |
24 |
0 |
0 |
|
Balochistan |
49 (60%) |
25 (30%) |
8 (10%) |
|
| |
Quetta |
3 |
22 |
4 |
| |
Zhob |
46 |
3 |
4 |
|
Sindh |
|
58 (96%) |
1 (2%) |
1 (2)% |
| |
Hyderabad |
29 |
0 |
0 |
| |
Karachi |
29 |
1 |
1 |
|
Capital |
|
81 (98%) |
2 (2%) |
0% |
| |
Islamabad |
81 |
2 |
0 |
| All | 536 (76%) | 128 (18%) | 43 (6%) | |
* Percentages indicate the proportion of PCR-positive samples for each species.