Polymorphism analysis of propeller domain of k13 gene in Plasmodium ovale curtisi and Plasmodium ovale wallikeri isolates original infection from Myanmar and Africa in Yunnan Province, China

Table 1 Information of 15 ovale malaria cases with their Plasmodium species distinguished by k13 gene dimorphism

Infection source^a	P. vivax^b	P. ovale^c	Years						P. ovale spp.
Infection source^a	P. vivax^b	P. ovale^c	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	curtisi	wallikeri	mutation
Total	15	15	2	3	2	1	2	5	11	3	1
Myanmar	5	5	2	3	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
Congo	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
Gabon	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Guinea	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0
Nigeria	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Cameroon	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0
Uganda	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Ghana	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0

^aIdentified by epidemiological investigation; ^bSpecies initially identified by county-level laboratories in Yunnan Province; ^cSpecies confirmed by YNRL in Yunnan Province

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