Changing epidemiology of malaria in Sabah, Malaysia: increasing incidence of Plasmodium knowlesi

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Proportion of PCR-confirmed Plasmodium knowlesi mono-infections among microscopy-diagnosed Plasmodium malariae/ Plasmodium knowle s i , Plasmodium falciparum* and Plasmodium vivax mono-infections, by year

	Proportion (%) of PCR-confirmed P. knowlesi monoinfections
Microscopy diagnosis	2011^#	2012	2013	P value
P. malariae or P. knowlesi	129/163 (79)	327/383 (85)	468/536 (87)	0.035
P. falciparum	7/47 (15)	10/65 (15)	15/44 (34)	0.022
P. vivax	5/17 (29)	13/30 (43)	15/40 (38)	0.638

*Microscopic diagnoses of P. knowlesi and P. malariae were considered as a single group.
^#Data used from July 2011.

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