Large Variations in Malaria Parasite Carriage by Afebrile School Children Living in Nearby Communities in the Central Region of Ghana

Figure 5

Multiplicity of Infection. A bar of pie chart illustrating the msp2 PCR results. The P. falciparum-positive samples were subjected to msp2 PCR to determine the multiplicity of infection (MOI). Samples that did not yield any PCR amplicon were classified as negative. Those that yielded more than two amplicons were classified as multiclonal and those that yielded one (monoclonal) and two (biclonal) classified as containing infections with low MOI. The numbers in the figure are as a percent of the 140 P. falciparum-positive samples.