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Volume 17, Number 3—March 2011
Dispatch

Multidrug-Resistant Genotypes of Plasmodium falciparum, Myanmar

Zhaoqing Yang1, Chaoqun Li1, Miao Miao, Zaixing Zhang, Xiaodong Sun, Hao Meng, Jie Li, Qi Fan, and Guiyun YanComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Kunming Medical University, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China (Z. Yang, C. Li, J. Li); Yunnan Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Pu’er, Yunnan, (Z. Zhang, X. Sun); The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA (M. Miao, H. Meng, L. Cui); Dalian Institute of Biotechnology, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China (Q. Fan)

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Table 2

Prevalence of the pfnhe1 minisatellite ms4760 haplotypes in the clinical samples from Kachin State, northeast Myanmar, 2007–2009*

Haplotype† No. rep 1 No. rep 2 Haplotype frequency, %
1 2 2 12.7
3 1 2 5.1
5 4 1 3.8
6 2 1 13.9
7 3 1 54.4
9 3 2 3.8
14 3 1 1.3
18 2 2 2.5
34 4 1 1.3
35 1 1 1.3

*Pfnhe1, Plasmodium falciparum Na+/H+ exchanger.
†Numbers refer to the haplotype list of Meng et al. (5).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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