Volume 15, Number 5—May 2009
Research
Chloroquine-Resistant Haplotype Plasmodium falciparum Parasites, Haiti
Berlin L. Londono, Thomas P. Eisele, Joseph Keating, Adam Bennett, Chandon Chattopadhyay, Gaetan Heyliger, Brian Mack, Ian Rawson, Jean-Francois Vely, Olbeg Désinor, and Donald J. Krogstad
Table 2
Samples from household surveys (active case detection) and hospital outpatients (passive case detection) tested by small subunit PCR for Plasmodium falciparum, by year of collection, Haiti
| Characteristic | 2006 | 2007 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samples from household surveys, no. positive/no. tested (%) | 23/714 (3.2) | 5/5 (100) | 28/719 (4) |
| Samples from hospital outpatients, no. positive/no. tested (%) | 9/55 (16) | 42/47 (89) | 51/102 (50) |
| Total, no. positive/no. tested (%) |
32/769 (4.2) |
47/52 (90.4) |
79/821 (9.6) |
| Molecular studies | |||
| Resistance to ApoI digestion, no. positive/no. tested (%) | 6/32 (19) | 4/47 (9) | 10/79 (13) |
| Haplotype, no. samples | |||
| CVIET | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| CVMNT | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| CVMNK | 2 | 3 | 5 |
