Table 1.
Clinical and demographic characteristics of clinical isolates.
| Characteristic |
North WestRegion (NWR) NHD |
South West Region (SWR) LHD |
NHD + LHD |
Pvalue | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMK | BBL | BKB | ALL | ML1 | BOT | BDK | ALL | |||
| DBS extracted DNA | 77 | 33 | 25 | 135 | 72 | 43 | 47 | 154 | 289 | – |
| Var ATS Pos | 73 | 30 | 23 | 126 | 62 | 38 | 42 | 142 | 266 | – |
| Successfully genotyped | 56 | 28 | 22 | 106 | 59 | 34 | 33 | 126 | 232 | – |
| Male sex | 27 | 11 | 11 | 49 | 29 | 18 | 14 | 61 | 110 | 0.096 |
| Female sex | 29 | 17 | 11 | 57 | 30 | 16 | 19 | 65 | 122 | 0.231 |
|
Age, yrs (median ± SD) |
8.1 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.7 ± 0.18 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 8.0 | 6.5 ± 0.02 | 7.1 ± 0.22 | 0.083 |
|
Parasitemia (%) (median ± SD) |
6.3 | 5.5 | 5.9 | 5.9 ± 0.11 | 6.4 | 5.9 | 6.8 | 6.3 ± 0.23 | 5.4 ± 0.04 | 0.041 |
P value by Kruskall-Wallis test for comparison between NHD and LHD. VarATS (variable gene acidic terminal sequence) - P. falciparum diagnostic PCR (50copies/genome). Collection sites included BMK-bamunka, BBL-bambalang and BKB-bamukumbit from the Ndop health district (NHD) of the northwest region (NWR) and ML1-mile one, BOT-bota, and BDK-bonadikombo of the Limbe health district (LHD) of the southwest region (SWR) of Cameroon.