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Table 1
Plasmodium spp. detected by microscopy and PCR. Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu have been classified as high endemic areas for P. knowlesi infection. Meanwhile, Kedah, Selangor, Putrajaya, and Kuala Lumpur have been described as low-endemic areas despite co-existing macaques and the human population.
| Locality | Sample collected, N (%) | BFMP |
PCR for Plasmodium spp. |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +ve (%) | −ve (%) | +ve (%) | −ve (%) | ||
| Kedah | 59 (14.1) | 0 (0.0) | 59 (100) | 0 (0.0) | 59 (100) |
| Kelantan | 22 (5.1) | 2 (9.1) | 20 (90.9) | 2 (9.1) | 20 (90.9) |
| Terengganu | 58 (13.8) | 19 (32.8) | 39 (67.2) | 18 (31.0) | 40 (69.0) |
| Pahang | 188 (44.9) | 184 (97.9) | 4 (2.1) | 176 (93.6) | 12 (6.4) |
| Selangor | 56 (13.4) | 0 (0.0) | 56 (100) | 0 (0.0) | 56 (100) |
| Sabah | 4 (1.0) | 4 (100) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (100) | 0 (0.0) |
| W.P. Putrajaya | 2 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (100) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (100) |
| W.P. Kuala Lumpur | 30 (7.2) | 2 (6.7) | 28 (93.3) | 2 (6.7) | 28 (93.3) |
| Total | 419 (100.0) | 211 (50.4) | 208 (49.7) | 202 (48.2) | 217 (51.8) |
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