Population genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum across a region of diverse endemicity in West Africa

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Multiple genotype infections assessed by typing 10 P. falciparum microsatellite loci in 268 isolates from 8 West African locations

Country	Location	Number of isolates	Number of isolates with given no. of detected genotypes					Mean number of genotypes per isolate^a	Proportion of locus scores with >1 allele^b
Country	Location	Number of isolates	1	2	3	4	>4	Mean number of genotypes per isolate^a	Proportion of locus scores with >1 allele^b
Guinea	N’Zerekore	44	1	6	8	14	15	3.7	0.58
Guinea	Boke	33	0	3	5	14	11	4.1	0.54
Guinea	Forecariah	9	0	0	2	3	4	4.2	0.51
Guinea Bissau	Caio	12	0	6	5	1	0	2.6	0.30
Gambia	Greater Banjul	79	34	32	13	0	0	1.7	0.14
Gambia	Basse	33	1	20	11	1	0	2.4	0.35
Gambia	Farafenni	42	6	26	8	2	0	2.1	0.33
Senegal	Richard Toll	16	3	9	3	0	1	2.2	0.26

^aFor this analysis the number of genotypes was scored from the locus with the largest number of alleles within the isolate.
^bFor this analysis the proportion of loci with >1 allele within each isolate was scored.

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