Table 2.
Prevalence of malaria parasites detected by realtime-PCR in pregnant women at six locations of Madagascar
| Coast | Highlands | Total (N = 1242) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mananjary (N = 195) | Manakara (N = 249) | Ifanadiana (N = 197) | TDD (N = 203) | Moramanga (N = 198) | Ambositra (N = 200) | |||||||||
| Number of samples | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| P. falciparum | 25 | 12.8 | 51 | 20.5 | 19 | 9.6 | 21 | 10.3 | 27 | 13.6 | 14 | 7 | 157 | 12.6 |
| P. malariae | 0 | - | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 9 | 0.7 |
| P. ovale | 0 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0.1 |
| P. vivax | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0.1 |
| Pf + Pm | 0 | - | 3 | 1.2 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 5 | 0.4 |
| Pm + Po | 0 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0.1 |
TDD, Tsiroanomandidy.
N, Number of EDTA-blood samples collected.
n, number of positive samples for Plasmodium species detection by realtime-PCR.