Genetic diversity of Plasmodium vivax in clinical isolates from Bangladesh

Malaria Journal

Table 4 Multiplicity of infection and expected heterozygosity (H_E) of three different P. vivax polymorphic markers (based on PCR)

	Marker
	Pvcsp	Pvmsp 1	Pvmsp 3α
Number of PCR positive samples (n)	102	102	102
Mean MOI	1.07	1.17	1.13
H_E	0.777	0.689	0.437
\({\text{P}} = \sum {\text{Pi}}^{ 2}\)	0.230	0.318	0.567
Combined probability^a		0.041

MOI mean multiplicity of infection, H _E heterozygosity (expected).
^aCalculated by multiplying the probabilities ‘P’ for all markers, which defines any of two independent clones share the same genotype.

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