Molecular identification of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in malaria infected women who received intermittent preventive treatment in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Table 1 Types of SNPs detected in Pfdhfr and Pfdhps genes among 48 Plasmodium falciparum isolates

Mutant alleles in Pfdhfr gene^a	Number of the isolates, n (%)	Mutant alleles in Pfdhps gene^b	Number of the isolates, n (%)
N51I	41/48 (85.4)	A437G	48/48 (100.0)
C59R	29/48 (60.4)	K540E	1/48 (2.1)
S108N	48/48 (100.0)	A581G	1/48 (2.1)

^aPfdhfr polymorphisms: codon 51, asparagine to isoleucine; codon 59, cysteine to arginine; codon 108, serine to asparagine
^bPfdhps polymorphisms: codon 437, alanine to glycine; codon 540, lysine to glutamic acid; codon 581, alanine to glycine

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