The prevalence of submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriage and multiplicity of infection in children, pregnant women and adults in a low malaria transmission area in Southern Ghana

Table 3 Association between P. falciparum msp2 allelic family type and gametocyte carriage

Infecting clone type	Gametocytes (n) Positive	Negative	OR	95%CI	P-value
3D7	24	46	1
FC27	24	22	7.0	0.34–144.08	0.207
3D7 + FC27	22	26	5.92	1.56–22.54	0.009

Odds ratio (OR), 95% confidence interval (CI), calculated from logistic regression analysis. n: is the sample size for gametocytes
P value ≤ 0.05 in italic

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