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Volume 23, Number 4—April 2017
Research

Plasmodium malariae Prevalence and csp Gene Diversity, Kenya, 2014 and 2015

Eugenia LoComments to Author , Kristie Nguyen, Jennifer Nguyen, Elizabeth Hemming-Schroeder, Jiaobao Xu, Harrisone Etemesi, Andrew Githeko, and Guiyun YanComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA (E. Lo, K. Nguyen, J. Nguyen, E. Hemming-Schroeder, G. Yan); Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China (J. Xu); Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya (H. Etemesi, A. Githeko)

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Table 1

Prevalence of Plasmodium malariae and P. falciparum among asymptomatic persons in the community, Kenya, June–August 2014 and 2015*

Site, patient age, y No. tested No. (%) infections
Total P. malariae P. falciparum Mixed†
Kombewa
<15 63 41 (65.1) 0 28 (44.4) 13 (20.6)
>15
70
35 (50)
2 (2.9)
29 (41.4)
4 (5.7)
Chulaimbo
<15
190
76 (40)
2 (1.1)
71 (37.4)
3 (1.6)
Kendu Bay
<15
150
97 (64.7)
0
89 (59.3)
8 (6)
Port Victoria
<15
190
57 (30)
2 (1.1)
54 (28.4)
1 (0.5)
Total 663 306 (46.2) 6 (0.9) 271 (40.9) 29 (4.4)

*According to nested PCR of the 18S rRNA gene.
P. malariae and P. falciparum.

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