Table 1.
Multiplicity of infection (MOI), Expected Heterozygosity (HE) and frequency of allelic variants of Pfmsp-1, Pfmsp-2 and Pfglurp genes.
| Genes | Allele frequency (n = 52) | Fragment size range (bp) | Number of genotypes | Monoclonal infection (%) n = 52 |
Polyclonal infection (%) n = 52 |
chi-square p- value (Monoclonal vs. polyclonal infections) |
MOI (n = 52) |
HE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pfmsp-1 |
30 (57.7%) |
22 (42.3%) |
0.000086 | 1.56 | 0.89 | |||
| K1 | 37 | 150–290 | 8 | |||||
| MAD20 | 28 | 150–230 | 4 | |||||
| RO33 | 16 | 160 | 1 | |||||
| Pfmsp-2 |
36 (69.2%) |
16 (30.8%) |
1.31 | 0.81 | ||||
| FC27 | 32 | 310–420 | 4 | |||||
| 3D7/IC | 36 | 490–610 | 5 | |||||
| Pfglurp | 55 | 550–1010 | 9 | 49 (94.2%) | 3 (5.8%) | 1.06 | 0.85 | |