Table 2.
Parasite clonality, Complexity of Infection and Allelic family distribution.
| State | n | Clonality | Allelic family Distributiona | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| msp-2 (n = 213) | msp-1 (n = 223) | |||||||||||||
| Poly | Mono | COI (range) | 3D7 | FC27 | BOTH | K1 | MAD20 | RO33 | K1 + RO33 | K1 + MAD20 | MAD20 + RO33 | ALL | ||
| Adamawa | 50 | 37 | 13 | 2.8 (1–4) | 9 | 9 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 9 |
| Bayelsa | 45 | 38 | 7 | 2.5 (1–4) | 18 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 2 | 8 |
| Imo | 82 | 40 | 42 | 1.7 (1–4) | 46 | 10 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Kwara | 45 | 29 | 16 | 2.1 (1–5) | 18 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Sokoto | 49 | 36 | 13 | 2.8 (1–5) | 17 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| All | 271 | 180 | 91 | 2.3 (1–5) | 108 | 36 | 69 | 41 | 36 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 15 | 26 |
aAll 271 samples were characterised using the polymorphic markers. Some samples were amplified using both polymorphic markers while some were amplified either by msp-2 or msp-1.