Table 1.

Allelic size variants of GLURP R II repeat region of P. falciparum field isolates in Group-A (collected in 2005) and Group-B (collected in 2011)

Types	Allelic size variants (50 bp bin)	Group-A (N = 29) n (%)	Group-B (N = 26) n (%)	Total (N = 55) N’ (%)	p value
I	501-550	0	2(7)	2(3)	0.2014
II	601-650	0	1(4)	1(2)	0.4531
III	651-700	1(3)	3(10)	4(6)	0.3211
IV	701-750	1(3)	10(34)	11(17)	0.0016
V	751-800	3(9)	2(7)	5(8)	1
VI	801-850	5(14)	1(4)	6(9)	0.209
VII	851-900	6(17)	3(10)	9(14)	0.4943
VIII	901-950	8(23)	4(14)	12(19)	0.5221
IX	951-1000	7(20	3(10)	10(16)	0.3268
X	1001-1050	4(11)	0	4(6)	0.1198
	I + II + III + IV + V	5(14)	18(62)	23(36)	0.0001
	VI + VII + VIII + IX + X	30(86)	11(38)	41(64)	0.0001
Total		35(100)	29(100)	64(100)	0.3768
MOI		1.21 ± 0.49	1.12 ± 0.43	1.16 ± 0.46

N = number of sample; n = frequency of GLURP allelic size variants;

% = percentage of GLURP allelic size variants; MOI = multiplicity of infection.