Volume 17, Number 10—October 2011
Research
Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in Humans and Macaques, Thailand
Somchai Jongwutiwes
, Pattakorn Buppan, Rattiporn Kosuvin, Sunee Seethamchai, Urassaya Pattanawong, Jeeraphat Sirichaisinthop, and Chaturong Putaporntip
, Pattakorn Buppan, Rattiporn Kosuvin, Sunee Seethamchai, Urassaya Pattanawong, Jeeraphat Sirichaisinthop, and Chaturong Putaporntip
Table 2
Distribution of Plasmodium species by malaria-endemic areas of Thailand, October 2008–September 2009*
| Infection | Region, no. (%) |
Total no. (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern (Tak) | Eastern (Chantaburi) | Southern (Yala) | Southern (Narathiwat) | ||
| Monoinfection | 989 (81.33) | 351 (87.53) | 1,297 (92.12) | 352 (83.61) | 2,989 (86.74) |
| P. falciparum | 507 (41.69) | 27 (6.73) | 810 (57.53) | 212 (50.36) | 1,556 (45.15) |
| P. vivax | 481 (39.56) | 320 (79.80) | 485 (34.45) | 136 (32.30) | 1,422 (41.27) |
| P. malariae | 1 (0.08) | 1 (0.25) | 0 | 1 (0.24) | 3 (0.09) |
| P. ovale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| P. knowlesi |
0 |
3 (0.75) |
2 (0.14) |
3 (0.71) |
8 (0.23) |
| Co-infection | 227 (18.67) | 50 (12.47) | 111 (7.88) | 69 (16.39) | 457 (13.26) |
| P. falciparum and P. vivax | 217 (17.85) | 46 (11.47) | 105 (7.46) | 64 (15.20) | 432 (12.54) |
| P. falciparum and P. malariae | 1 (0.08) | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.24) | 2 (0.06) |
| P. falciparum and P. ovale | 2 (0.16) | 0 | 1 (0.07) | 0 | 3 (0.09) |
| P. falciparum and P. knowlesi | 2 (0.16) | 0 | 3 (0.21) | 1 (0.24) | 6 (0.17) |
| P. vivax and P. malariae | 1 (0.08) | 0 | 2 (0.14) | 0 | 3 (0.09) |
| P. vivax and P. ovale | 1 (0.08) | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.24) | 2 (0.06) |
| P. vivax and P. knowlesi | 2 (0.16) | 1 (0.25) | 0 | 1 (0.24) | 4 (0.12) |
| P. falciparum, P. vivax, and P. knowlesi |
1 (0.08) |
3 (0.75) |
0 |
1 (0.24) |
5 (0.15) |
| Total | 1,216 | 401 | 1,408 | 421 | 3,446 |
*Data from nested PCR. Percentages are of the total number in that region or infection category.
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