Table 1.
Results of species-specific PCR assays for Plasmodium-positive macaques.
| NHP | Captive/wild | Number positive | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pk | Pct | Pcy | Pin | Pk + Pin | Pin + Pct | Pin + Pcy | Pcy + Pct | Pk + Pcy + Pct | Pk + Pin + Pct | Pcy + Pin + Pct | Pk + Pcy + Pin + Pct | *Could not be identified | Total | ||
| Mf | Captive | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Wild | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | |
| Mn | Captive | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Wild | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Total | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 38 | |
NHP: Non-human primates, Mf: M. fascicularis, Mn: M. nemestrina, Pk: P. knowlesi, Pct: P. coatneyi, Pcy: P. cynomolgi, Pin: P. inui.
*Samples were Plasmodium-positive but species of Plasmodium could not be identified with primers specific for P. knowlesi, P. cynomolgi, P. inui, P. fieldi and P. coatneyi.