Sympatric Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Venezuela have structured var gene repertoires

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Genotype of three P. falciparum isolates described in this study, and by Tami et al. (2002).

Isolate	GLURP	MSP1*	MSP2	RRM type	Relative frequency among 40 isolates**
#1	1000 bp	K1 232 bp	IC 535 bp	Ia	62.5%
#2	1000 bp	K1 232 bp	IC 535 bp	Ib	12.5%
#3	883 bp	MAD20 155 bp	IC 523 bp	II	5%

*K1 and MAD20 represent distinct allelic families of MSP1 sequences; IC represents a distinct allelic family of MSP2 sequences [20]. **Of the 41 isolates obtained in 1996, 40 were mono-clonal [12].

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