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 3 Prevalence of "inner" haplotype (40 kb) over the years

	1995/96	2002	2005-07
no. of samples	43	47	55
no. of samples with local "inner" haplotype (~40 kb)	34 (79%)	29 (62%)	32 (58%)
no. of samples with other "inner" haplotypes (~40 kb)	9 (21%)	18 (38%)	23 (42%)

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