A thirteen-year analysis of Plasmodium falciparum populations reveals high conservation of the mutant pfcrt haplotype despite the withdrawal of chloroquine from national treatment guidelines in Gabon

Table 2 Prevalence of the local resistant haplotypes (100 kb) over the years

	1995/96	2002	2005-07
no. of samples	38	45	49
no. of samples with local haplotypes (~100 kb)	22 (58%)	14 (31%)	16 (33%)
no. of samples with other haplotypes (~100 kb)	16 (42%)	31 (69%)	33 (67%)

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