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Volume 12, Number 3—March 2006
Research

Identifying and Quantifying Genotypes in Polyclonal Infections due to Single Species

James M. Colborn*, Ousmane Koita†, Ousmane Cissé†, Mamadou W. Bagayoko†, Edward J. Guthrie‡, and Donald J. Krogstad*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; †University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali; ‡Agilent Technologies, Wilmington, Delaware, USA

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Table 3

Copy number for amplification of msp1 allotypes in field samples*

Allotype
Field sample MAD20 RO33 K1 Hybrid
1 1,380 0 15,300 467,000
2 0 361,000 342 0
3 813 0 25.53 0
4 138.4 0 261.4 0
5 25.65 0 1,090 101
6 6.71 0 323.7 29.7
7 143 0 22.6 75.7
8 548 0 361 0
9 717 0 2,320 11.9
10 2,330 226 44.6 178

*Distribution of allotype-specific copy numbers for samples from 10 subjects infected with Plasmodium falciparum. Both MAD20 and K1 allotype parasites were present in 8 of the 10 subjects, MAD/RO hybrid allotypes were present in 4, and RO33 was present in 1.

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