Table 3. Distribution of msp 1, msp 2, and glurp clones detected in previous studies conducted in southwestern Nigeria, 2004–2014, and North Central Nigeria, 2015–2018*.
| Study | Region (state or territory) | No. samples | No. alleles† |
Mean MO‡ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
msp1
|
msp2
|
glurp | ||||||||
| K1 | MAD20 | R033 | FC27 | IC/3D7 | ||||||
| Happi et al. (30) | Southwestern (Ogun) | 47 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 5 | – | |
| Olasehinde et al. (31) | Southwestern (Ogun) | 100 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | 1.1 | |
| Oyebola et al. (32) | Southwestern (Lagos) | 100 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | 1.4 | |
| Bamidele Abiodun et al. (33) | Southwestern (Lagos) | 78 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 1.4 | |
| This study | North Central (Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi, Kaduna, FCT) | 54 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 2.4 | |
*FDT, Federal Capital Territory; glurp, glutamate-rich protein; MOI, multiplicity of infection; msp1, merozoite surface protein 1; msp2, merozoite surface protein 2. †Total number alleles found, regardless of size. ‡Defined as number of parasite clones per sample.