Volume 26, Number 8—August 2020
Research
Naturally Acquired Human Plasmodium cynomolgi and P. knowlesi Infections, Malaysian Borneo
Thamayanthi Nada Raja, Ting Huey Hu, Khamisah Abdul Kadir, Dayang Shuaisah Awang Mohamad, Nawal Rosli, Lolita Lin Wong, King Ching Hii, Paul Cliff Simon Divis, and Balbir Singh
Table 1
Comparison of microscopy and PCR for identifying Plasmodia spp. among patients with malaria during June 24, 2013–December 31, 2017, Kapit Hospital, Kapit, Malaysian Borneo*
| Microscopy | PCR |
Total | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pf | Pk | Pm | Pv | Po | Pf + Pv | Pf + Pm | Pf + Po | Pk + Pf | Pk + Pv | Pk + Pcy | Pv + Po | ||
| P. falciparum | 93 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 103 |
| P. knowlesi | 7 | 810 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 865 |
| P. malariae | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| P. ovale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| P. vivax |
0 |
0 |
0 |
48 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
55 |
| Total | 106 | 815 | 8 | 65 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1,047 |
* Pcy, Plasmodium cynomolgi; Pf, P. falciparum; Pk, P. knowlesi; Pm, P. malariae; Po, P. ovale; Pv, P. vivax.
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