Table 2 Detection of Plasmodium species by microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods in 453 patients with malaria in Malaysia
From: High proportion of knowlesi malaria in recent malaria cases in Malaysia
Result of microscopic examination | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PCR results | Pf | Pk | Pv | Pm | Po | Pk + Pv | Pf + Pm | No. of cases by PCR |
P. falciparum | 46 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 |
P. vivax | 0 | 3 | 122 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 133 |
P. malariae | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
P. ovale | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
P. knowlesi | 3 | 172 | 8 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 256 |
P. knowlesi and P. vivax | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
P. knowlesi and P. falciparum | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
P. falciparum and P. vivax | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
No. of cases by microscopy | 52 | 181 | 136 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 453 |