Impact of an Irrigation Dam on the Transmission and Diversity of Plasmodium falciparum in a Seasonal Malaria Transmission Area of Northern Ghana

Table 3

Multiplicity of infection estimates using msp2 loci and proportions of individuals carrying multiple and single clones.

	Season	Infection	Dam site (%)	Nondam site (%)	value
Clones	Wet	Single	16 (33.3)	16 (30.2)	0.831
		Multiple	32 (66.7)	37 (69.8)
	Dry	Single	18 (26.9)	34 (79.1)	<0.001
		Multiple	49 (73.1)	9 (20.9)
MOI	Wet		2.42	2.49	0.778
	Dry		2.24	1.26	<0.001
	value		0.413	<0.001

values obtained using Fisher’s exact test for proportions. values obtained following MOI comparison between seasons () or between sites () using Mann–Whitney test.