Chiucchiuini, A; Babiker, H; Ranford-Cartwright, L; Cuzin-Ouattara, N; Nebié, I; Cousens, SN; Walliker, D; Esposito, F; (2001) Insecticide treated curtains and allelic polymorphism of Plasmodium falciparum genes in a rural area of Burkina Faso (west Africa). Parassitologia, 43 Sup (SUPPL.). pp. 7-10. ISSN 0048-2951 https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/16192
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Abstract
To assess the possible impact of insecticide treated curtains (ITC) on the composition of a Plasmodium falciparum population in a rural area of Burkina Faso, blood samples were collected during the rainy season of 1997 from 226 children aged 3-6 years, from 4 villages equipped with ITC and 2 control villages without ITC. The analysis of fragment lengths of 3 highly polymorphic P. falciparum genes (msp-1, msp-2 and glurp) revealed a maximum number of 3 alleles per infected person for each gene. The mean number of clones per infected person was similar in villages with and without ITC.