Table 1.
Information of 15 ovale malaria cases with their Plasmodium species distinguished by k13 gene dimorphism
| Infection sourcea | P. vivaxb | P. ovalec | Years | P. ovale spp. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | curtisi | wallikeri | mutation | |||
| Total | 15 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1 |
| Myanmar | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Congo | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Guinea | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
aIdentified by epidemiological investigation; bSpecies initially identified by county-level laboratories in Yunnan Province; cSpecies confirmed by YNRL in Yunnan Province