Table 4.
Polyclonality of malaria infection in six locations in Madagascar
| Coast | Highlands | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of clones | Mananjary (N = 19) | Manakara (N = 37) | Ifanadiana (N = 12) | TDD (N = 17) | Moramanga (N = 20) | Ambositra (N = 11) | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| 1 | 12 | 63.2 | 24 | 64.9 | 6 | 50 | 13 | 76.5 | 19 | 95 | 9 | 81.8 |
| 2 | 4 | 21.1 | 11 | 29.7 | 4 | 33.3 | 4 | 23.5 | 0 | - | 2 | 18.2 |
| 3 | 2 | 10.5 | 2 | 5.4 | 2 | 16.7 | 0 | - | 1 | 5 | 0 | - |
| 4 | 1 | 5.3 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - |
| MOI [CI 95%] | 1.6 [1.1-2.0] | 1.4 [1.2-1.6] | 1.7 [1.2-2.2] | 1.2 [1.0-1.5] | 1.1 [0.9-1.3] | 1.2 [0.9 - 1.5] | ||||||
TDD, Tsiroanomandidy.
MOI, multiplicity of infection.
N, Number of Plasmodium falicparum samples able to be genotyped for microsatellite loci.