Volume 16, Number 11—November 2010
Research
Genetic Structure of Plasmodium falciparum and Elimination of Malaria, Comoros Archipelago
Stanislas Rebaudet1, Hervé Bogreau1, Rahamatou Silaï, Jean-François Lepère, Lionel Bertaux, Bruno Pradines, Jean Delmont, Philippe Gautret, Philippe Parola, and Christophe Rogier
Table 3
MOIs of Plasmodium falciparum infections for the 5 sites studied, Comoros archipelago and Marseille, France*
| Locus | Grande Comore |
Moheli |
Anjouan |
Mayotte |
Marseille |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | MOI | No. | MOI | No. | MOI | No. | MOI | No. | MOI | |||||
| All 6 loci |
36 |
1.39 |
36 |
1.47 |
36 |
2.11 |
36 |
1.22 |
36 |
1.64 |
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| Pf2689 | 34 | 1.03 | 27 | 1.07 | 36 | 1.19 | 36 | 1.08 | 36 | 1.22 | ||||
| 7A11 | 34 | 1.12 | 32 | 1.19 | 35 | 1.37 | 36 | 1.14 | 36 | 1.39 | ||||
| C4M79 | 34 | 1.21 | 25 | 1.32 | 33 | 1.55 | 36 | 1.11 | 36 | 1.42 | ||||
| Pf2802 | 31 | 1.00 | 23 | 1.00 | 32 | 1.00 | 36 | 1.00 | 36 | 1.00 | ||||
| TRAP | 35 | 1.42 | 29 | 1.14 | 36 | 1.67 | 36 | 1.08 | 36 | 1.19 | ||||
| C4M69 |
32 |
1.06 |
21 |
1.19 |
34 |
1.12 |
36 |
1.03 |
36 |
1.11 |
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| Mean no. alleles per locus | 8.5 | 8 | 8.5 | 4.5 | 7.8 | |||||||||
*Based on no. multi-infected isolates as shown in Table 2. MOI, multiplicity of infection (no. multi-infected isolates/no. randomly genotyped isolates); no., no. randomly genotyped isolates.
